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July 26 declared working day Kohima, July 25 (DiPR): The Government of Nagaland, Home Department GAB-II has in an order declared July 26, Saturday, as a working day for Government Offices. In lieu of this, October 4, Saturday, has been declared as a holiday.

Five arrested for illegal collection DimaPuR, July 25 (mexN): Five persons were arrested for illegal monetary collection in Dimapur on July 25. According to the police, they were apprehended from MST colony while issuing ‘tax slips’ to businesses at around 10:30 am. The police stated that they were collecting ‘tax’ in the name of the NNC (Non-Accordist). A total of 45 ‘taxation’ notes were confiscated from the arrested, who were identified as Sepichum Sangtam (31), Aseba Sangtam (41), Nachulo Rengma (34), Tsalichum Sangtam (32) and Hangkimong Yimchunger (32).

New crowned Miss Dimapur 2014 Veineinem Singson is flanked by first runner-up Kevizenuo Dozo and second runner up Vilokali Sumi on July 25 at Dimapur, Nagaland. Photo by Caisii Mao (Story on page 5)

CAG reports anomalies in financial accounts

DimaPuR, July 25 (mexN): The Comptroller and Auditor General of India report detailing the status of the Nagaland Government’s undertakings, including Central government programmes, was tabled in the Budget session of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly on July 25.

According to the summary of the CAG audit reports for the year ending March 31, 2013, released to the media by the office of the Accountant General, Kohima, glaring anomalies were detected during audit in several of the financial statements of the various departments and agencies under the Government of

Nagaland.

The anomalies as pointed out by the CAG included “inflated beneficiary list”, excess payment against original supply order in the Social Welfare department; and fund diversion, release of funds against unexecuted work, providing “undue benefit” to contractors in the Public Works (R&B) department.

It further reported that the Home and Youth Resources & Sports departments had released funds against work not executed.

The report stated that provisioning of ration for the Nagaland state Armed Police, did not commensurate to the actual feeding

strength, which resulted in excess expenditure.

Furthermore, excess expenditure in the PHE; fund diversion in the State Institute of Rural Development; “possible misappropriation” of funds in the Planning & Coordination department; spending based on “fabricated records” in the Legal Metrology department; and tax evasion owing to laxity on the of the Finance (Taxation) department, were some of the other findings mentioned in the CAG report. It further reported that Nagaland state was losing revenue due to the Geology & Mining’s failure to revise rate of royalty.

Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang today assured to take steps to ensure that the Plan funds are used judiciously for the benefit of all sections of the people in all districts.

Giving the government’s reply on the budget discussion, he thanked all the members for their active participation in the debate by voicing healthy criticisms, advises and suggestions to the government. He informed that the various issues raised has been noted and assured that the points raised would be looked into with seriousness.

On the remarks of the opposition members about the Government blaming the 13th Finance Commission, Zeliang informed about the meeting with the Prime Minister, Union Finance Minister and Deputy Planning Commission of India soon after the awards were announced.

“None of them have disputed this fact”, he maintained. He further informed the House that on the instructions of the Prime Minister a special window called “Special Central Assistance” was opened to mitigate the adverse impact of the 13th Finance Commission awards on the special category States.

“The Planning Commission could not provide the whole of the BCR gaps for want of budget provisions and this led to an uncovered BCR gap of Rs. 1964.15 crores during the 4 years (2010-11 to 2013-14),” he informed.

Appreciating the concerns of CLP leader Tokheho Yepthomi on low collec-

required to tap the vast resources of the northeastern states to generate electricity,” he added.

He said that law and order problem, surface connectivity, delay in getting environmental clearances and the lack of good bidders are the major hurdles the authorities are facing to set up power projects in the region.

According to official documents, the hydropower potential of the region is estimated at about 58,971 MW, which is almost 40 percent of the country’s total hydro po-

tential. But only about 2.1 percent (1,242 MW) has so far been harnessed till May this year.

The region is blessed with 151.68 billion cubic metre reserve of natural gas which is capable of generating 7,500 MW of electricity for 10 years and the region possessed 864.78 million tonnes of coal against 186 billion tonnes of reserves in the country.

In the eight states of the region, the peak hour demand of electricity is around 2,200 MW. NEEPCO has an installed capacity of 1,130 MW, which

is 47 percent of the total installed capacity of all the power projects of the northeastern region.

“The northeastern region would be a power surplus area in the country within two years and it would help to attract industries in the region,” Pankaj said, adding that the region would also be able to supply power to Bangladesh if the two countries agreed.

He said that the per capita consumption of electricity in the northeastern region is 257 kw an hour against the national average of around 850 kw.

‘Forceful launch of oil exploration’ criticized

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NLA passes bill for withdrawal of Rs. 12473, 45, 96,000 from CF Our Correspondent Kohima | July 25

Nagaland’s Budget session was adjourned today after passing Nagaland Appropriation (No. 3) Bill, 2014, authorizing the withdrawal of Rs. 12473, 45, 96,000 (Rupees twelve thousand four hundred seventy three crore forty five lakh ninety six thousand) from and out of the Consolidated Fund of the State of Nagaland for the financial year 2014-15.

After discussion and voting on the demand for grants for the year 2014-2015, tion of state’s own revenue, the Chief Minister replied that Transport and Taxes departments has been steadily increasing its revenue and meeting its target.

Supporting his statement, he informed that the State’s tax revenue has during the last 5 years grown from Rs. 180.51 crore during 2009-10 to Rs. 347.29 crore during 2013-14, registering a growth of 92.15%.

During the same period, the total revenue has grown from Rs. 306.86 crore during 2009-10 to Rs. 527.62 crore, a growth of 71.54%, he informed. He however regretted that due to the narrow tax base and lack of economic activity, the state has not been able to achieve the desired levels of growth.

The chief minister said that steps have already been initiated to examine measures to improve revenue generation in the key sectors.

With regard to the suggestion for taxation on land and buildings, Zeliang clarified that it was a subject to be taxed by Municipalities

Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang, who also holds the finance portfolio, introduced the Bill, which was taken into consideration and passed on the floor of the House.

After the completion of all the business/agendas which was listed in the fifth session of the 12th assembly, Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) Speaker Chotisuh Sazo adjourned the House sine die this evening at around 6:30 PM. Sazo had earlier announced the revised constitution of the various financial and non-financial committees and chairman for 2014-2015.

as per the Constitution of India and the issue could be looked into as and when municipalities are re-constituted. With regard to the allegation of Rs. 18 crore being spent on approach road alone, Zeliang clarified to the House that the amount was Rs. 6.75 crore and not as rendered.

On the issue of oil exploration where MLA Hukavi expressed fear that companies would purchase the Oil fields and land would be transferred, the Chief Minister clarified that according to the state’s legal framework of PNG Rules and Regulations, no company is allowed to go for outright purchase of land.

The companies will be required to pay the land access fee for pre-production and production activities, he said. “Ownership and title of land will always be retained and vested with the landowner and once the operation is over, the land will be back with the landowner”, he informed.

On the issue of power shortage, T.R. Zeliang replied that big hydro electric

projects are not found feasible except in one or two locations as all the rivers in Nagaland are rain fed with limited catchment areas. He informed that very soon the DPR for 25 MW Zungki and 36 MW Tizu Hydro Electric Project would be ready.

Acknowledging the concerns of the opposition with regard to water scarcity in the capital town, Zeliang admitted that the problem has existed for decades affecting all the people.

He informed that the PHE department has taken up project for improving supply of water to the capital town with water from Zaru stream and as on date has reached 75% completion and was expected to be completed and commissioned within 2015.

With regard to coverage of villages and towns with water scarcity, Zeliang assured that the department is giving priority to the most water scare villages and towns and significant improvements would be made within a period of two years.

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Foreign investment needed to harness NE power potential CMFG Chairman clarifies

agaRtala, July 25 (iaNS): Without foreign investment, the vast power potential of the northeastern region could not be leveraged, says the man heading the government-run North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO).

“Government resources are limited to commission plenty of power projects in the region to fully utilise the potential of power generation,” NEEPCO Chairman-cum-Managing Director P.C. Pankaj New Delhi, July 25 told IANS in an interview. (iaNS): India has clearly “Huge foreign investment told China that Arunachal as well as a hi-tech setup is Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir “are integral and inalienable parts of India”, Defence Minister Arun Jaitley said Friday. DimaPuR, July 25 The minister told the Lok (mexN): A consultative Sabha that China claims meeting convened by the some 90,000 sq km of In- Kyong Students Union dian territory in Arunachal (KSU) on July 25 conPradesh. “Indian terri- demned what it said was tory under the occupation the “forceful launching of of China in Jammu and Oil Exploration at TssoriChanpang on July 21, 2014.”

Kashmir is approximately A KSU press note informed 38,000 sq km,” he added. In that the house reiterated its addition, Pakistan had ille- earlier stand and that it “will gally ceded 5,180 sq km of not allow Oil & Gas exploraIndian territory in its Kash- tion in the land of Lothas till mir to China, he added. the demands as submitted “The fact that Arunachal to the Chairman, Nagaland Pradesh and Jammu and Petroleum & Natural Gas Kashmir are integral and Board on September 17, inalienable parts of India 2012 are met.” has been clearly conveyed It further asserted to the Chinese side on sev- that any form of “alieneral occasions, including at ation from our land and the highest level,” he said. its resources would be di-

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Consultative meeting resolves ‘not to allow Oil and Gas exploration in the land of Lothas’

sastrous for survival as a people,” and resolved to “defend and fight for our land and resources as our inalienable right.”

The House condemned and rejected the signatories of the Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) signed on June 26 2014 between what it termed were “so called land owners of Wokha Zone” and Metropolitan Oil and Gas Pvt Ltd (MO&GPL), “since there is no such body as Land Owners of Wokha Zone.”

Stating that the resolutions were passed “with full trust and faith by the Lotha People,” it cautioned any organization or individual going against these resolutions that they would be “taken as against the interest of the Lothas.”

While condemning the “violent action” of the police against “peaceful and democratic protestors,” the house further resolved to empower the KSU to “uphold, protect and defend these resolutions with dig-

nity and honour.”

The meeting, held at DBS Youth Resource Centre, Wokha, was attended

by Wokha District Village Council Chairmen Association, Wokha District VDB Association, Kyong Eloe Hoho, Lotha Youth Hoho,Wokha District Senior Citizens’ Forum, Kohima Lotha Hoho, Chumukedima Lotha Hoho, Ralan Area Lotha Hoho, Lotha Lower Range Village Chairmen Association, Wokha Town Colony Union, Wokha District Chamber of Commerce & Industries, Wokha Town Colony Youth Organisation, senior student leaders and intellectuals.

on coverage of Ceasefire

DimaPuR, July 25 (mexN): Chairman of the Ceasefire Monitoring Group (CMFG), NK Singh today made it clear that the “ceasefire with NSCN does not extend outside Nagaland.” A press note from the CMFG Chairman termed the NSCN (IM)’s recent statement, which he stated branded him as a “tool manipulated by vested interests,” as “unfortunate, unfounded and baseless.”

The CMFG Chairman assured that he is “guided solely by his mandate which is to monitor the implementation of the agreed Ceasefire Ground Rules in letter and spirit.” He asserted that “all actions of the Chairman are without any bias and that all violations noticed are clearly pointed out.” ”Being held accountable for ceasefire violations and transgressions may be uncomfortable for NSCN and Assam Rifles, but such action cannot be called biased,” it added.

On territorial coverage of the ceasefire, the CMFG Chairman stated that after the June 14, 2001 agreement was signed, “there were protests in which several people died.” Subsequently, he

added that after a meeting at the highest level in New Delhi, there was a “crucial statement issued on July 27, 2001, in which it was formally conveyed that the three words ‘without territorial limit’ would be deleted from the June 14, 2001 agreement.” He added that Government

to Mao Gate as claimed by the NSCN (IM) shows that the ceasefire did not exist south of Mao Gate.”

Referring to the March 16, 2002 incident, where 11 NSCN (IM) cadres were killed in a single operation at Pallel, the CMFG Chairman stated that this “obviously shows there was not even a semblance of any ceasefire there.” “Their weapons being returned later was obviously on some other considerations,” he added.

He further stated that the examples cited by the NSCN (IM) in their recent statement were “incidents resolved as a special case since the ceasefire was not applicable.” “The reliefs granted in these cases were actually perhaps more on the realm of confidence building measures to strengthen and sustain the nascent official ceasefire in Nagaland,” he added.

Singh asserted that peace is “desirable and welcome everywhere, whether an area has ceasefire or not.” The CMFG Chairman appealed to all concerned to “adhere to the CFGRs in Nagaland with sincerity in letter and spirit, so as to improve the daily life of all people in Nagaland.”

Informs that “ceasefire with NSCN does not extend outside Nagaland” of India representatives had already discussed the matter with the NSCN (IM) and claimed that the latter was “agreeable to this decision.”

As such, it asserted that after July 27, 2001, the June 14, 2001 agreement “should be read deleting the three words ‘without territorial limit’ and considering these three words as nonexistent in the agreement.”

The CMFG Chairman further cited the 2004 incident, where 13-14 NSCN (IM) cadres were “let off and escorted out as a special case after pleas were made to the then Union Home Minister.” In this, he stated: “The very fact that the group was specially escorted all the way back

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Our Correspondent Kohima | July 25

Congress MLA K. Khekaho Assumi today said he wanted to see that the state government is focus on inclusive growth of the state. Participating in the budget discussion here today, he regretted that as of now it is a selective growth.

He also stressed on the need to have a strong monitoring body in the state. He said that one member from Opposition Congress bench be included in the quality monitoring body.

Assumi also stressed on the need to check imbalances in order to bring down fiscal deficit and also the need to have accountability, less political interferences and less omission and commission. Also taking part in the discussion, MLA Hukavi drew the attention of the House to check corruption.

He also stated that unless austerity measure is taken the future of Nagaland is at bleak.

He alleged that DAN government has failed the people on all front. He said the state is witnessing many issues raised by different NGOs and individuals

but the government was ignoring the voices of the people.

Hukavi also lamented that the government is not taking very serious on Assam-Nagaland border issue.

He said that 90% of dispute land has taken over by Assam.

He requested the Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang to be very serious on border issue.

Hukavi also said that the government can continue with the policy of NSDZ, but it should not try to sell the land to company on the pretext of NSDZ. He added that government should not dilute Article 371 (A).

On oil exploration, he said when the people are not happy the company will never be in position to extract the oil. He said the government must apply the right formula and right system which is honorable and acceptable to the people of Nagaland.

Hukavi also called for early restoration of town committees in the state.

MLA Mmholumo Kikon and MLA Imtikumzuk also participated in the budget discussion.

The budget discussion will continue till July 25.

Governor P.B.Acharya with Dinesh Singh Vice Chancellor Delhi University.

NEw, DElhi, July 25 (mExN): PB Acharya, Governor of Nagaland on Thursday, July 25 met Prof. Dinesh Singh, Vice Chancellor of the Delhi University and suggested him to introduce major tribal dialect/languages of all the North-Eastern Region in Delhi University. He said that he can provide him the best language

teacher knowing tribal dialects and can encourage students to learn such languages or dialects.

The Vice-Chancellor has assured the Governor that he would introduce courses in tribal dialects of the North Eastern Region and will be submitting a preliminary report on it to the office of Governor soon.

Kohima, July 25 (mExN): The Nagaland Institute of Health, Environment and Social Welfare (NIHESW), Kohima is organizing free homeopathic medical camp at its Office Conference Hall, Opposite Commissioner's Office, Old Secretariat Complex on July 28 (Monday), from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Dr. OM Dubey, HMD (London), Homeopathy

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Eastern Nagaland Public Organization also call on the Governor and congratulated him on becoming the Governor of the State they also apprised the Governor about the various issue of Eastern Nagaland.

This was stated in a press release issued by Kuolie Mere, PRO, Nagaland House, New Delhi.

consultant will be available for consultation during the camp. Patients suffering from general illness including patient with chronic diseases may avail the opportunity.

Meanwhile, as a part of the various welfare activities, the Gorkha Public Panchayat, Kohima is organising free homeopathic Medical Camp at GPP hall, Opp. Government Print-

ing Press, Chandmari on July 27 (Sunday ) from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Dr. OM Dubey, HMD ( London ) will be available for consultation during the camp.

Gorkha Public Panchayat, Kohima Welfare Secretary, Mohan Gurung in a press release has invited people with general illness including patients suffering from chronic diseases to avail the opportunity.

Vijay Diwas at Pheza on July 26

The officers and staff of the Directorate of Geology and Mining, Dimapur, Nagaland, conducted mass social work in the office premises and inside the office on July 25. The programme was organized to create awareness on maintaining cleanliness and upkeep of office as well as to create clean environment in the office compound and surroundings. The Director has appreciated and thanked all the officers and staff for their active participation in the social work.

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LUK get-together programme woKha, July 25 (mExN): The Losami Union Kohima (LUK) has reminded all its bonafide members/ citizens residing in and around Kohima, to attend the get-together programme, scheduled on July 29 (Tuesday) at CBCK Jubilee Hall, Kitsubozou. The gathering is hosted by Eyekowe K. Tara, PS to Parliamentary Secretary School Education, wherein, Dr. Kevekhalo Lasuh, Pastor CBCK will be the resource person. The LUK further informed that discussion hour is slated for the eve session for which “feasible agendas for the welfare of the Union” are welcomed.

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Two autos recovered Dimapur, July 25 (mExN): The office of the Union Territory, Government of the People’s Republic of Nagalim has informed that two autos were recovered, and the rightful owner is requested to claim the same with valid documents during office hour, within seven days. The auto bears Registration No. Nil Engine No. APMBSE02000, Chases No MD2AAAPZWE03892. Also another Auto with Registration No. Nil, Engine No AEMBJH69783, Chases No 24FBJH83175.

This was informed in a press note issued by Khekuto Jakhalu, Secretary, UT GPRN. One may contact 9436971965/857659190.

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Kohima, July 25 (mExN): The Assam Rifles is commemorating and paying homage to Capt (Late) Neikezhakuo Kenguruse, MVC and martyrs of Kargil war on occasion of 15th Vijay Diwas on July 26, 2014 at the memorial of Capt Neikezhakuo Kenguruse, MVC located at Pheza. The programme will commence at 8:00 AM. A press note received here informed that senior officers of the Army and Assam Rifles including GOC 3 Corps, IGAR (N) and Dir Rajya Sainik Board and the family members, relatives,

villagers of the martyr, GBs and VCs of nearby villages, ESM, youth and school children will be attending the function, according to Lt Col Emron Musavi, PRO (Defence).The note also mentioned that the function will commence with wreath laying followed by address by the father of the martyr and the Corps Commander, 3 Corps. Besides this, information on various recruitment schemes for the youth in the Armed Forces and AR and ESM related issues will also be highlighted.

ABAM Sunday-School Promoter passes away

impur, July 25 (Dipr): Ao Baptist Arogo Mungdang (ABAM) Sunday School Promoter, Sashimeren Walling passed away on the night of July 24 following a massive stroke. He was 42 years and he left behind his wife and two sons.

According to an ABAM official, Late Sashimeren, M.Th attended the ABAM Executive meeting to make certain report pertaining to his department on that mEDziphEma, July 25 (mExN): State Agricultur- fateful evening. After preal Management Extension Training Institute (SAMETI) Medziphema organized training on farm mechanization from July 22 to 24 at Sameti Training Hall Medziphema.

Agriculture Officers and ATMA functionaries from all the districts of Nagaland participated in the training.

Dimapur, July 25 The resource persons are James Kikon SMS (Soil Sci- (mExN): Bharatiya Janata ence) KVK, ICAR Dimapur who deals with topic on Farm Party President Nagaland Mechanization in NEHR and Scope of Farm Mechaniza- State Unit Dr.M.Chuba Ao is tion, Ranjit Singuvi Chief Executive Officer, AGRI-TECH please to appoint Yangkhaba 4th Mile Dimapur imparted on concept, need and im- Sangtam from Kiphire town portance of Agri-tech machineries to participants. Dem- as Kiphire District BJP Presionstration on power tillers, tractor and Agritech machin- dent and JM Makhe Yimceries such as weeder, chain sow and earth mover was hunger Former BJP District carried out by Sanket Singuvi Chief Technical Officer, President Kiphire is elevated Agritech, A.Temsu SDO (Sugarcane), Imsu AFA and Neik- to BJP State Council Member, effect from July 23. This erezo AFA. All AET trainees of IETC also participated the with was stated in a press note isdemonstration session and were given a chance to oper- sued by Lachit Kachari, Ofate and handle machineries, agri tools and implements. fice Secretary BJP Office The valedictory function was addressed to all participants Dimapur. “BJP Nagaland is for further impart the same training to farmers commu- looking forward your coopernity as they go back to the respective districts and cer- ation and wishes all the best tificates were given away by Nguzonyi Wetsah, Director in your future endeavour,” SAMETI and Principal IETC Medziphema. further stated the note.

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senting his report, he had a massive stroke when he was about to leave the meeting at around 8:30 p.m. A Doctor was called immediately to treat him and was referred to Guwahati. However, his health deteriorated while proceeding to Guwahati near Yimyu, Mokokchung and was rushed back to Mokokchung Civil Hospital where he was declared dead.

Church workers in ABAM headed by its Executive Secretary Rev. Dr.

Mar Atsungchanger and Church leaders from different churches paid homage to late Sashimeren for his dedicated service to the ABAM as Sunday School Promoter for the past seven years at the funeral service held at Impur on July 25.

Parliamentary Secretary for Labour & Employment, Dr. Longri expressed deep shock over the sudden demise of Sashimeren. In a condolence message read out at the funeral service, Dr. Longri said it

was more shocking and disheartening that late Sashimeren, who dedicated himself to the glory of God and accepted the opportunity to serve the ABAM in the capacity of Sunday School Promoter came to an end untimely.

He expressed hope that Almighty God would endow to the bereaved family with fortitude to bear the irreparable loss. The dead body of late Sashimeren was later taken to Khar village for burial.

Women empowerment and gender budgeting prog held

Kohima, July 25 (mExN): Principal Director, School Education, Kesonyu Yhome has informed all DDOs that SSA teachers, including those who were in service prior to joining the SSA posts and given service continuation, are to draw their salary through fund provided by the SSA. In a release, the principal director stated that there has been a confusion raised regarding payment of salary for SSA Teachers who were in service prior to joining the SSA posts. The fund for the teachers’ salary will be made available through separate DDO-wise budget allocation by the Directorate and is to be recorded as SSA Salary Expenditure under Non Plan, the release stated. Concerned DDOs are therefore directed to prepare the expenditure as indicated above. This information may be also be made known to the respective Treasury Officers so that booking of expenditure is done correctly.

DEO Peren informs on scholarship pErEN, July 25 (mExN): The Office of the District Education Officer Peren informs the Students of Class-5 and Class-9 (both Government and Private Schools) who would like to apply for the Scholarship under Children Education Assistance Fund (LEAF) for the year 2014 may collect the from the Office of the undersigned from July 30 to August 25. Last date for submission of the duly filled in formats shall be August 29.

No forms will be issued or accepted after the last date, informed a press release issued by Limainla Pongen, District Education Officer Peren.

GSNSS meeting on July 27 Kohima, July 25 (mExN): The Gorkha Singhadevi Mandir Sanchalan Samity, Kohima, (GSNSS), has convened a general public meeting of all Gorkha NGOs, students and the general public on July 27, (Sunday) at 2:00 pm at Dharamshala, Mandir Complex, Chandmari to discuss about the Shiva Mandir, Janmasthami and the upcoming Durga Puja 2014.

Therefore, all the concerned citizens/NGOs/students are requested to attend the meeting positively.

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IGNOU informs on scholarship Kohima, July 25 (mExN): The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) informs its students that Post Matric Central Scholarships (2014-2015) forms are now available at the Regional Centre, Kohima.

Eligible candidates may collect the form which will be issued w.e.f. July 28 on week days. The last date for submission of filled in application forms is September 12.

This was informed in a press release issued by T. Iralu Regional Director, IGNOU Regional Centre Kohima.

Lotha Literature Committee informs Kohima, July 25 (mExN): The Lotha Literature Committee and Kyong Academy is planning to compile Lotha folk stories and fictions. A press note issued by R. Ekonthung Lotha, Secretary, Lotha Literature Committee informed interested persons to kindly submit stories and factions to the Chairman Lotha Literature Committee.

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Info on EDN Series of GPF Statement Kohima, July 25 (mExN): Directorate of school education has informed all the concerned establishments that the EDN Series of the GPF Statement for the year ending March 2014 will be issued by the Directorate of School Education, Nagaland, Kohima as per the given schedule. Kohima-July 28 & 30; Dimapur- July 31 & August 1; Peren & Wokha-August 2 and 4; Phek & Zunheboto-August 5 to 7; Mokokchung-August 8 and 11; Tuensang- August 12 & 13; Mon- August 14 & 16; Longleng & Kiphire- August 19 & 20. The concerned DDO(s) have been requested to depute their Office Assistant with authorisation and with the detail list of the incumbents & GPF Account Numbers arranged in ascending order. The release issued by Senior Accounts Officer Tsuren M Odyuo also stated that the GPF Statements will strictly be issued on the scheduled date for the respective Districts and the Statements will not be issued to unauthorised persons and individuals.

NSDA Tsg branch condemns TuENsaNg, July 25 (mExN): The Nagaland in Service Doctors Association (Tuensang Branch) has strongly condemned the harassment and mental torture meted out to Dr. Sungmo Chang, senior medical officer of CHC Noklak by FGN Longdong region. The Association in a press release issued by president Dr T Panjung Sangtam and Secretary Dr. Tochi Chang stated, “all grudges or reasons can be discussed and personally sorted out amicably with dignity without mental, emotional and verbal abuse,” Further, the Association has decided to show grievances by wearing black badge for one week (starting from July 26) in all heath units in Tuensang district in support of their colleague.

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woKha, July 25 (mExN): The Department of Fisheries, Wokha, conducted a sensitization programme on ‘women empowerment and gender budgeting’ on July 8 at Wokha town. The target groups included women leaders, women self-help groups, educated unemployed youth, students and church workers.

A press note issued by Ketusielie Angami, District Fisheries Officer, Wokha stated that DFO Wokha delivered the key

note on the theme ‘empowering women is key for inclusive, democratic, violence free and sustainable development’ with special focus on compulsory girl child education.

The resource persons for the programme were Lichilo, KBES Women Secretary and Dr. Nchubeni, Fishery Inspector. The issues discussed in the programme were Role of Women in a progressive society- socio-economic factors and Women Empowerment through Fisheries and Aquaculture.

Dimapur, July 25 (mExN): The All Sumi students' Union (SKK) has mourned the demise of its leader Richard Shikhu, former social & cultural secretary SKK who passed away on July 22, 2014. The union in a condolence note expressed shock and is deeply saddened by the sudden demise of an honest leader who has contributed his everything for the welfare of the society. Every remarkable contribution made by him shall ever remain in the history of the union forever. The union prays that almighty god shower blessing upon the bereaved family and the departed soul rest in peace.

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JE and AES claim 252 lives in Assam guwAHAtI, July 25 (PtI): At least 252 lives have been claimed

by Japanese Encephalitis (JE) and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) ItANAgAr, July 25 (PtI): Two cases of Japanese Encephalitis have in Assam this year, a senior health been detected from two villages in Papum Pare district of Arunachal Pradesh forcing the health authorities to sound an alert in the state. department official today said.

“Two patients, Dai Yaju and Hai Kiokam, from Chimpu and TaraBoth diseases have affected 1,573 persons with 415 suffering juli villages were detected with Japanese Encephalitis recently and from JE and 1,158 from AES, Joint they are presently undergoing treatment at Guwahati,” district Vector Director Health Services-Malaria Borne Disease Control Officer Tatung Tayang said on Friday.

On receiving the report, a team led by Tayang rushed to the area for Dr B K Barua told PTI. 69 persons have died due to Jap- investigation about vector breeding and its habitat which revealed that anese Encephalitis, while AES has the patients’ dwelling place surrounded by forest and pigsty built nearby.

“Pigs, herons and egrets which are amplifying hosts for Japanese Enclaimed 183 lives, Dr Barua said.

24 of the 27 districts in the cephalitis virus were available in the dwelling areas,” he said.

The team brought awareness among the villagers about the causes state were affected by encephalitis with the worst-hit ones be- and preventive measure and background of the disease, which are ing Tinsukia, North Lakhimpur, mostly breeds in paddy field and advised them not to construct pigsty Jorhat, Dibrugarh, Dhemaji and and not to allow stagnant water nearby dwelling places.

Golaghat in Upper Assam and Barpeta, Nalbari, Darrang, Ka- officials said. drawn up an action plan, including mrup and Kamrup (Metro) in To control further spread of the intensive fogging in the affected arlower Assam, health department disease, the health department has eas, vaccination drives and aware-

Two suffer from JE in Arunachal

ness campaigns by involving the local panchayats.

Steps have been taken to ensure adequate supply of vaccines and medicines to the big and district hospitals and other health centres as well as to procure laboratory testing kits for quick diagnosis of cases, the officials said.

Directing the Public Health and Engineering Department to speed up conversion work of shallow tube wells to deep tube wells, the government has also asked the department to provide clean drinking water to check the disease.

Reviewing the situation, the Chief Minister issued instructions to ensure that there was no shortage of medicines and to procure all necessary drugs, specially the life saving ones, the officials added.

TSLD on Delhi killing Naga Hoho concerned at Ukhrul situation

IMPHAl, July 25 (NNN): tHe tANgkHul Shanao Long, Delhi (TSLD) while strongly condemning the killing of Akha Shaloni in Delhi has stated it is disturbed by the ugly trend of killing people from the North East in Delhi.

"We strongly condemn the killing of Wilungbou Chawangat Chirag on July 5 and Akha Salouni at Kotla Mubarakpur on July 21," the Delhi based Tangkhul women union said.

TSLD demanded authorities to investigate the matter in all seriousness and bring the culprits of the crime to justice. "We appeal the government for setting up of an effective mechanism to curb such hatred violence and killing in future," it appealed.

TSLD called upon all individuals and civil organizations of the North East in Delhi to come together to prevent and condemn the frequent violence targeted against a race. "It is time we as individuals and as civil societies concertedly work together to eradicate such lawless evil discrimination in the society," it stated.

DIMAPur, July 25 (MexN): The Naga Hoho has expressed ‘deep concern’ at the promulgation of 144 CrPC and militarization of Ukhrul town.

“We are deeply concerned over the militarization of Ukhrul Town by deployment of huge Manipur Police Commandos and IRB and promulgation of 144 CrPC which has disturbed the peace and tranquility of the Town,”

a statement issued by the Publicity cell said.

“This warlike situation should be done away with immediately. We believe it will not be the interest of all stakeholders to disturb peace. Peace has slowly and gradually been returning in the Naga areas after the declaration of ceasefire with the GOI,” the apex Naga body stated.

It stated that the Hoho has been tirelessly work-

ing with utmost sincerity to bring peace and tranquility for the Naga people and added, “we are against any form of violence and killing in our society.”

The Hoho, in this regard, drew the attention of Government of Manipur and Government of India to see that peace, tranquility and normalcy be restored in Ukhrul Town in the interest of the peace loving people.

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Medical negligence can be criminal offence: Tripura HC AgArtAlA, July 25 (IANS): The Tripura High Court has observed that medical negligence can be termed a criminal offence, a lawyer said here Friday.

"A doctor in Agartala after an operation of a woman's abdomen left behind an eight-inch corrugated drain tube inside her body. While hearing the case, High Court Chief Justice Deepak Gupta last week observed this was medical negligence and it can be termed criminal offence," lawyer Bhaskar Deb told reporters.

According to him, while performing laparoscopic surgery on Sarbani Deb's abdomen in January 2006, doctor Pratap Sanyal acted in a grossly negligent manner which amounts to criminal negligence or criminal offence.

Sarbani's husband Bapi Roy Choudhury, a senior journalist, filed a case in a lower court (first class judicial magistrate) against the doctor.

"With the court framing

criminal charges against Sanyal, he filed a petition in the high court to quash the lower court's proceedings," the lawyer said.

Rejecting the doctor's petition, Justice Gupta observed that it was prima facie established that the doctor has committed a criminal offence and the trial can continue in the lower court.

The lawyer said after the operation, the patient complained of severe pain in the abdomen and contacted the doctor on a number of occasions.

He said the doctor misbehaved with the Deb couple when they approached the surgeon repeatedly with the scan report.

The lawyer said: "Not satisfied with the treatment of Doctor Sanyal, Roy Choudhury took his wife to Kolkata (October 2007).

Following another surgery (that month), doctors removed the corrugated drain tube from the body, relieving the patient from the severe pain of 21 months."

Kalam says compile findings as part of 'Vision 2030'

SHIlloNg, July 25 (IANS): Former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Friday asked IIM-Shillong students to compile their findings and suggestions on various topics as part of their "Vision 2030 for the Dimensions of Development in India".

"We (students) presented our views from a managerial perspective on the topics and explained how they envisioned the future of India's economy on various issues ranging from Climate Change, Robotics, Agriculture to Nanotechnology as part of 'Vision 2030 for the Dimensions of Development in India' to our former president (Kalam)," Ayushi Rohira, a student of Indian Institute of Management (IIM)-Shillong told IANS. "He was impressed with our ideas and requested us to compile their findings and suggestions in a report that will be looked into and the most feasible solutions will be implemented," he added. The "Missile Man", as Kalam is also known due to his background in aerospace engineering and his role in India's indigenous missile development, is one of the visiting faculty members at IIM-Shillong.

Kalam was here since Thursday delivering lectures under a series titled "Dimensions of National Development" and guiding students individually as well as in groups.

Another student, Yash Bhambhwani, said: "July 25, 2014 will go down in the history of IIM-Shillong as the day when young minds presented their views and recommendations for a prosperous world in 2030."

"The various facets that he (Kalam) talked about included a vision for the nation for 2030 ... He taught us that leaders of tomorrow must have the passion to transform their vision to actions," student Rohan Modi said.

The IIM here, named after former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, started in 2008 from a makeshift campus at a complex that was the erstwhile summer palace of the kings of Mayurbhanj in Odisha. The Meghalaya government has allotted a 120-acre plot on which work has begun for a stateof-the-art academic-cum-residential campus.

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Are Anti Defection Provisions Constitutionally Justified

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he term defection in parliamentary political life, connote change of any party affiliation or allegiance by a member of a legislature. The traditional term for the latter has however been ‘floor crossing’ which had its origins in the British House of Commons where a legislator was supposed to have changed his party allegiance when he crossed the floor and moved from the government to the Opposition side.

A significant development took place when the Constitution was amended to include the Tenth Schedule. A Constitution Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 24th Jan 1985 which stated “the evil of political defections has been a matter of national concern.

If it is not combated it is likely to undermine the very foundations of our democracy and the principles which sustain it.”

The Constitution Fifty Second Amendment Act changes four Articles of the Constitution, viz 101(3)(a), 102(2), 190(3)(a) and 191(2), and added the Tenth Schedule. This amendment is often referred to as the anti-defection law. This legislation contains eight paragraphs-the first one deals with definitions, the second

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After the night there is light Light has gone Night has come Steps freezes Everything seems to cease.

Stand-by! wisdom signals Still! Still! wisdom whispers.

Let your heart await the dawn For foolish is one who wanders in the dark alone.

It is just a routine night That comes after the light.

Lose not to imprudence your sight.

Patience! And ever count on it; Let not your heart fret.

Everything passes away And this blindness shall not forever stay.

Endurance of the night Comes with an assurance of a new light.

When it is not your time It is never an easy climb.

Endure so, wisdom speak.

Let thy walk in slowness keep.

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Endure, for after the Night Comes the light.

said “there are certain side effects and fall out which might affect and hurt even honest dissenters and conscientious objectors, but these are the usual plus and minus of all areas of experimental legislation. In these areas, the distinction between what is constitutionally permissible and what is outside it is marked by a ‘hazy gray line’ and it is the Court’s duty to identify, ‘darken and deepen’ the demarcating line of constitutionality” In India unlike other democracies in the world, the vote of each legislator in the House is not important. For example, in Israel when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon wanted a legislative approval to pull Israeli troops out of the Gaza strip he was supported by members from the Opposition Party while a few members of his own party dissented. Even in the UK when Prime Minister Tony Blair wanted Great Britain to join the war in Iraq, more than 150 members of his party voted against him. He had to take the support of members of the Conservative party to put the legislation through.

Such difference of opinion between members of the same party is allowed in other democracies.

Members of the Labour Party in the UK did not have to leave it, just because they did not agree with the party line. They just made their preference known and continued to stay on in the party. In India the members of a particular party are bound to follow the direction of their party whips or face disqualification. The anti defection law stifles debates on matters in the Parliament as the legislators are not allowed to dissent, without being disqualified by the House.

The term “party whip” dates back to fox hunting and was used to refer to minders who kept the dogs, used for hunting, on the pursuit of the foxes. The party whips’s role is to inform members of the House about the matters which are going to be tabled in the house and to request their presence during the voting of important matters. The whips also find out the views of the members of the party, on issues which are going to be tabled in Parliament and report it back to the party High Command. But this role of the party whip, from trying to understand the individual views of its party members has been completely reversed to dictating the party leadership’s view upon them.

Thus a dissenting member has no option but to leave his party and join another party which

states the provisions which disqualifies members from the membership of Parliament or State Legislatures, the fourth states that disqualification is not going to apply in cases of merger, the fifth sets out certain exemptions, the sixth and seventh states the person who would be deciding the disputes regarding defections and barring jurisdiction of the Courts in respect of questions on disqualification and the last paragraph contains provisions for the Speaker and the Chairman to make rules in order to give effect to the provisions contained in the schedule.

There are several issues in relation to the working of this law which needs to be discussed.

Does the law while preventing defection also suppress a member of parliament’s right to the freedom of expressing his own opinion in Parliament? Does it restrict their opinion which is against the party position? Is the decision of the Speaker regarding disqualification of a Member of Parliament final? Does judicial review extend to the rules framed under the tenth Schedule?

Whether dissent equals defection?

Paragraph 2(1)(a) and (b) provides the disqualifications incurred by a member. It gives effect to this principle and sentiment by imposing a disqualification on a Member who votes or abstains from voting contrary to “any directions” issued by the political party.

This provision also recognizes two exceptions; one, when the member obtains from the political party prior permission to vote or abstain from voting and the other when the Member has voted but his action has been condoned by the political party.

Under Paragraph 2(1) (b) dissent becomes defection. It deals with a member who expresses his dissent from the stand of the political party to which he belongs by voting or abstaining from voting in the House contrary to the direction issued by the political party.

In Kihoto Hollohan v. Zachillhu & Ors, it was contended that the provisions of the Tenth Schedule constitute a ‘flagrant violation’ of those fundamental principles and values which are basic to the sustenance of the Parliamentary democracy. It negates the freedom of speech, right to dissent and freedom of conscience of our parliamentarians. They also contended that the Tenth Schedule impinges upon the rights or immunities under Article 105(2). The court

shares his ideals. This has two consequences. One, the dissenting members move away from the party, either forming another party or joining a different one.

Second the parties try to sway independents to their side by promising them ministerial posts or by offering them money. Parliament must therefore amend the tenth Schedule to limit the disqualification of legislatures only when they defy the party directive, to a vote on motion of no confidence or no confidence in the Government or where the motion deals with a matter, which was integral to the manifesto of the party and on the basis of which it had asked people to vote for it. It should thus allow legislators to disagree from the opinion of the party whip on matters of legislative business.

Is the speaker’s decision final?

Paragraph 6(1) was challenged in Kihoto Hollohon as it seeked to make the decision of the speaker final and immune from judicial review. According to Prof Wade the judicial control of legality of a decision taken under a statute which grants such ‘finality’ is ‘unimpaired’ The Court cited various authorities against the acceptability of the argument that the word “final” in Paragraph 6(1) had in excluding the jurisdiction of the Courts under Articles 136, 226,227.

It cited Brundaban Nayak v. Election Commission of India, where the Court, on an appeal by special leave under Article 136 of The Constitution against the decision of the High Court, examined the “finality” of the decision of the Governor in respect to the disqualification of a member of the State Legislature after his election. It was also contended that the proceedings under Paragraph 6(1) of the tenth Schedule were “proceedings in Parliament” or “Proceeding in the Legislature of a State” and therefore could not be challenged by the Courts under Article 122 or 212. But the Court said that since the proceedings under paragraph 6(1) occurred before the Speaker and not before the House, nor did it require the approval of the House, the decision of the Speaker was not immune from judicial scrutiny. The Court claimed that a dispute regarding the disqualification of a Member of Parliament/legislative Assembly was not to be treated as a matter of privilege but one which is not legislative but judicial in nature.

The court answered in the affirmative regarding, whether the Speaker, acting under paragraph 6(1) constituted a Tribunal or not.

According to the Bench, the Speaker passed the “well known and accepted tests” of what constituted a Tribunal. The Court concluded that the finality clause in paragraph 6(1) does not completely exclude the jurisdiction of the Courts under Article 136,226 and 227 of the Constitution, but it limits their jurisdiction. This lets the Courts to examine and it’s the constitutional legality whether the action or decision of the authority/Speaker is beyond the powers granted to him.

It was contended by the respondents in Mayawati v. that the decision of the Speaker is immune from judicial interference because of two restrictions. First, the Constitution Bench of the Kihoto Hollohan limited the scope of judicial scrutiny with regard to the decision of the Speaker. Secondly, they mentioned the “positional height” of the Speaker upon whom power is vested to determine disputes under the 10th Schedule. C.J Punchhi did not agree with this. According to him no constitutional functionary can be above the law and have such immunity.

Thus as mentioned in Kihoto Hollohan power of judicial review as regards the power of the Speaker was confined to jurisdictional errors based on violation of constitutional mandate, mala fides, non compliance of rules of natural justice and perversity.

Whether judicial review by courts extends to rules framed under tenth schedule?

In Ravi S. Naik v. Union of India, the Bench said that the rules made under the tenth Schedule were procedural in nature. The Disqualification rules according to were framed to regulate the procedure that is to be followed by the Speaker for exercising the power conferred on him by Paragraph 6(1) of the Tenth Schedule.

Any violation of these rules would amount to an irregularity in procedure which is immune from judicial scrutiny in view of Paragraph 6(2) as declared by the Bench in Kihoto Hollohan.

Can the speaker’s ruling be challenged in the court?

Under the Anti-Defection Law, the Speaker acts as a tribunal and his decisions are subject to judicial review. One can, therefore, go to the high court to seek interim orders of stay and subsequent decision on annulment of the Speaker’s order as ultra vires.

M Zachamo Ezung President DLYF Dimapur Nagaland

25 Years Of Politics Of Liquor Prohibition : Intellectual Approach

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have been provoked to tell the truth and shame the false as the saying goes, “tell the truth and shame the devil” about the 25 years of politics of Liquor Prohibition in Nagaland. This refers to the article on Dry State and its effects on Nagaland by Z. Lohe which appeared in the Morung Express on the 13th June, 2014 and the article on Prohibition: Reality check by Kekiye K. Sema from 24th – 25th July, 2014. Congrats to the esteemed concerned writers for telling the true story as rightly pointed out by S.C. Jamir, “Nagaland today is suffering from the famine of truth”. The two souls have filled up the gap of truth in Naga society today.

For your kind information, the aforesaid Nagaland total liquor prohibition act, 1989 was opposed by me as the Officer Incharge of the particular law before drafting. The reason was that such law has never been a successful anywhere in the world starting from America ever since 1920. No State in India have been successful in implementation of such impossible law. Such finding was confirmed through my independent research before drafting the law under intense demand and political pressure through voluntary bodies. Accordingly, I took the pain to explain the full facts and circumstances of the impending failure of the law under forceful demand through the Nagaland Baptist Church Council, Naga Mothers’ Association and the Naga Students’ Federation who spearheaded the prohibition movement. But all of them did not listen to reason. Instead of listening to reason, they continued to dictate the Government of the day just to pass the law whether pass or fail though it was none of their business to do so. Law making was the responsibility of the State Government and not voluntary bodies.

To be very frank, the aforesaid bodies became political tools rather than Non Governmental Organisations. Unfortunately, the Government of the day could not resist the forceful political pressure exerted to her through the voluntary bodies for fear of losing votes in the election or pulling down the power of the Government by force. Consequently, she succumbed to the public pressure which was engineered by the political opposition party of the time and agreed to legislate the Nagaland total liquor prohibition act, 1989 as an appeasement policy though fully aware that it was bound to be a real failure forever. Hence, the law became a mockery even after the lapse of 25 years of implementation as the law was a political joke. Hence, the saying goes, “two wrongs do not become a right”. In brief, both the Government of the day and the political opposition party under the aegis of the voluntary bodies were equally guilty for having passed impossible law of the world. Hence, at this late stage of 25 years ever since passing the law any blame game shall never solve the problem except to repeal the failed law.

We are all equal human beings with equal mistakes as the maxim goes, “to err is human”. If we are real human beings, we shall accept the mistake of the past and rectify it like the “trial and error theory” in continuous education. Let us continue to learn out of mistakes by repealing the failed prohibition law and remain in peace.

Dr. E. Renphamo Lotha Research scholar, GSM

Readers may please note that the contents of the articles, letters and opinions published do not reflect the outlook of this paper nor of the Editor in any form.

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Wildlife Department for the year ended March 31, 2013.

The Chief Minister also laid a copy each of the Nagaland Coal Mining (First Kohima, July 25 Amendment) Rules, 2014 (Dipr): List of business on and the Nagaland Coal PoliJuly 25 of the fifth session of cy (First Amendment) 2014. the twelfth Nagaland Legislative Assembly included Replies to starred question hour, presenta- questions tion of Comptroller & AudiReplying to starred tor General of India Report, question asked by Conlaying of reports, General gress MLA Imtiwapang Discussion on the Budget Aier regarding the impleof the year 2014-15, dis- mentation of rural water cussion and voting on the supply programme, Minisdemand for Grants for the ter for PHED, Noke Wangyear 2014-15, introduction, nao said that rural water consideration and passing supply schemes are being of the Nagaland Appropri- implemented under the ation (No. 3) Bill 2014 and National Rural Drinking announcement of Revised Water Programme (NRDConstitution of the various WP) and also mentioned financial and non-financial that 503 village habitations committees and panel of covered under this proChairman for 2014-15. gramme has coverage for CM tables C&AG reports The Chief Minister of Nagaland, T.R. Zeliang presented a copy of each of the following reports during the fifth session of the Twelfth Nagaland Legislative Assembly today. i. Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India on State Finance for the year ended March 31, 2013. ii. Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India on Social, Economics, Revenue and General Sectors for the year ended March 31, 2013. iii. Finance Accounts, 2012-13 (Vol. 1 & 2). iv. Appropriation Accounts (2012-13) v. Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India on Audit of Forest, Ecology and Environment &

Dimapur

100% of the population.

The Parliamentary Secretary for Horticulture, Kejong Chang in his reply to a question raised by CLP Leader Tokheho Yepthomi said that from 2010-11 and 2012-13 out of the targeted 12 Nos under Thirteen Finance Commission, construction of 8 Nos of ware houses in Kohima, Dimapur, Peren, Mon, Mokokchung, Wokha, Tseminyu and Phek were taken up.

Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang replying to a question by Congress MLA S. I. Jamir said that the ongoing construction work of DUDA Guest House at Sovima Dimapur is under SPA during 2012-13 and DUDA Students’ Hostel at Jotsoma was also taken up under SPA during 2013-14.

He added that the constructions of both Houses at So-

List of business in NLA on July 25

vima and Jotsoma is for the benefit and welfare of Eastern people and Students pursuing higher studies at Kohima Science College and other educational institutions located in and around Jotsoma. He also informed that out of 1572 students of Eastern Nagaland studying in Kohima during 2013 as submitted by Principals of various colleges, 267 students are enrolled in Kohima Science College and 27 students in Sazolie College.

Minister National Highway Nuklutoshi in his reply to a query raised by Tokheho MLA on the progress of four lane construction between Dimapur and Kohima, the Minister said that the cost for compensation of land and building are in the process of being paid to the land owners and informed that the total estimated cost is Rs 1089.84 crores. He also said that the sanction was given by the government of India and the process of compensation has been entrusted to the Deputy Commissioner Kohima and Deputy Commissioner Dimapur for their respective districts.

Minister for Social Welfare, Kiyanilie Peseyie in his reply to a query by Dr. Imtiwapang Aier MLA, said that the expenditure incurred from 2011-12 to 2013-14 under SABLA Scheme is a total amount of Rs. 6,58,88,000 for nutrition and non-nutrition. Minister also said that the activities involved in the scheme are: vocational training in four trades - tailoring,

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knitting, flower making and cross stitching to the adolescence girls, life skill education, home base skill education, awareness campaign about health and nutrition and providing supplementary nutrition to the adolescent girl in the anganwadi centre for 300 feeding days.

Replying to a starred question by CLP Leader, Tokheho Yepthomi on Development of rubber plantation in the State, Parliamentary Secretary Land Resources, B.S. Nganlang stated that 10,397 hectares of rubber plantation have been developed in Nagaland till date. He said that the identified growers are supported with bud-grafted stumps and cash in the first year of plantation to the extend the budgetary support is available with the department.

NLA members participate in budget discussion While participating in the budget 2014-15 discussion today which was earlier presented in the floor of the house by the Chief Minister of Nagaland, T.R. Zeliang on July 22, MLA S.I. Jamir while dwelling on the NSDZ, said that they are not against development and industrialization, but stating it as a critical issue, suggested for brain storming session on the issue before implementation. He requested the government to seriously deliberate with different organization before implementing the project.

On exploration and ex-

ploitation of Oil in the state, Jamir said, “we are all for it because we want employment for our youth.” He however observed that our understanding of Art. 371 (A) and the GOI understanding of the Article differs and opined that it was the responsibility of the Government and public leaders to educate the public to come to a realizing point.

On the oil exploration issue, Jamir felt that we need to have serious soul searching and should be legally prepared for facing the views of the Central Government. Agreeing with the leader of the House that excess of Government employees is one factor for the state’s precarious financial situation, Jamir said that it was time for the new government to take drastic measures “it will not be an easy task but as responsible leaders they should take the lead in the interest of the people,” he said.

Participating in the budget debate, MLA Imkong L. Imchen while dwelling on exploration of mineral wealth of the state supplemented the views aired by the Chief Minister and MLA Mhonlumo. Imkong informed that based on the legal opinion of the legal luminaries the cabinet subcommittee started exercising their minds and felt that it was legally mandated to go on with oil exploration within the confines of state list and Art. 371(A). “The fiscal health of the state is not

good so unless we mobilise our resources, we cannot generate revenue and this is one area, where government is expected to earn revenue”, he maintained.

MLA Eshak, while appreciating the idea for computerization of PDS operations which was reflected in the budget speech, said that if implemented in letter and spirit there would be transparency.

MLA Imliwapang, while participating in the budget discussion suggested that irrigation projects should be farmer friendly he further opined that the foot hill road issue should not be polarized, terming it as a state asset. Highlighting on the sports sector, he felt that harnessing of youth should be given importance and also mooted suggestions for setting up small manufacturing unit to solve unemployment and also to promote economy.

MLA Apok Jamir, who also participated in the discussion dwelt on the issue of influx of illegal immigrants, especially in Dimapur and termed it as a threat to Naga society. Pointing out that members of the House has been taking the issue lightly despite the high growth of illegal immigrant, Apok Jamir felt that the issue needs to be addressed on war footing to avoid dangerous consequences saying that almost all members of the House has touched on Foot hill road and oil/petroleum issue Apok reminded that

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CM on Assam border dispute our Correspondent

Nagaland’s Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang today said the Assam-Nagaland border dispute is pending in the Supreme Court of India since 1988 when a Civil Suit was filed by the Government of Assam.

“We have filed our affidavit in opposition,” he said adding that a Local Commission as appointed by the Supreme Court under the chairmanship of a retired Supreme Court Judge for hearing claims of both the states.

“However, after a couple of years, the Supreme Court has suspended the Commission and has now appointed Co-Mediators to resolve the dispute through mediation. The case will come up before the Supreme Court of India for hearing in the month of

September 2014,” Zeliang said in government’s reply on budget discussion on the floor of the House today.

He said the present problem in Dimapur involving the villages of Rilan, Indisen, Aoyimkum and Dikoi relates to encroachment by the people of Nagaland into the Doldoli Reserve Forest.

“While this area falls within the traditional claim area of the Nagas, till such time the matter is finally settled, status quo is to be maintained,” he said.

Under this arrangement, he said, management of the reserve forest in the border areas come under the forest department of the Government of Assam. “However, any act of encroachment of a reserved forest area is an offence, and action has to be taken against any act of encroachment,” he said.

Nagaland has a protective Article in the form of Art 371 (A). This has been put to protect our interest and identify economy as well as political interest.

Agreeing that the special development zone is a welcome step if it is for the economic progress of the State, Apok expressed gratitude to the Chief Minister Nagaland for agreeing to hold further consultations with different organization on the issue “In our country things are accelerating but unless we manage our own houses in governance we cannot progress and this

requires the collective involvement of all the members”, Apok said.

Apok was optimistic that the new Chief Minister has good intentions to put the Government in the right track, though a herculean task and assured that the opposition will continue to give constructive suggestions as also will caution the government on issues which will have negative consequences to the people of the state.

Others who participated in the budget discussion included Amenba Yaden, P. Pohwang Konyak, S. Chuba Longkumer.

Kohima | July 25

Veineinem crowned Miss Dimapur 2014

ANSTA condemns ransacking of NSF office Dimapur, July 25 (mExN): The All Nagaland School Teachers Association (ANSTA) has condemned the alleged ransacking of the Naga Students' Federation's (NSF) Office by some unidentified miscreants on July 21st night.

A press note from the association president Ponchulo Wanth and general secretary P. Vashum stated that it

was shocked to learn of the 'senseless act' of the miscreants and further stated that while the federation is all out for streamlining of social disorder of various forms of Naga society besides addressing myriad problems of the students, such impudent action of miscreants by breaking the main door and ransacking the entire office of the apex students organi-

zation is shameful and condemnable. It questioned what illegal/incriminating documents would be found from such dignified office.

While condemning the unscrup+ulous act of miscreants, it appealed to the law enforcing agency to nab the culprits and award them with exemplary punishment so that the same may not happen again.

PAPO condemn ‘custodial’ death phEK, July 25 (mExN): The Phek Area Public Organization (PAPO) vehemently condemned the custodial death that took place at Phek Police Station on July 19 last wherein late Vekhota was found dead inside the cell. A condemnation note from PAPO President Vezhehu Vero, stated that

the sad tragedy was a rare case of revealing irresponsibility of the concerned police officers and jawans.

PAPO added that the police should be held responsible for the said crime as their bound duty is to protect and save the lives of any accused persons once brought to their

custody. PAPO questioned loopholes of officers in charge and stated that they should be awarded befitting punishment as per the law. Failing to comply with the same, PAPO stated, it shall not remain a mute spectator but shall initiate its own course of action as would deem fit.

NSF condemn Akha Shalouni killing Kohima, July 25 (mExN): The Naga Students’ Federation condemned the killing of Akha Shaloni in Delhi, and stated that this incident once again proves the racist attitude of mainland India, particularly Delhi towards North East people.

A press release from the federation President Tongpang Ozukum and General Secretary Esther Rhakho stated that it also showed the 'lackadaisical attitude' of the

Government of India (GOI) in addressing this issue seriously and the slow pace in enacting a stringent law to curb racism in India. “Delhi police as ever has failed in their assigned duties to protect the denizens of Delhi and yet again it happened to be from the North Eastern region,” NSF stated.

Strongly urging the State Governments of the North Eastern region to come together cutting across political parties and affiliations,

it asked the governments to work out mechanisms in pressurizing the central government to check the inhuman treatments against the North East people in metropolitan cities in India.

The Federation also urged upon the apex North East Students’ Organization (NESO) to take up such common issues with seriousness and commitment and take the lead in fighting against injustice and racial attacks.

SOUDA condemns threat Dimapur, July 25 (mExN): The Shena Old Union Dimapur Area (SOUDA) has vehemently condemned and slammed threats made to its vice chairman Jonah Achumi by one Salekh Arkham alias Salehk Bosozoku. A press release from the union’s General Secretary Ghokheto Yeptho and Chairman Hetovi Achumi alleged that Salekh was an “illegal Bangladeshi immigrant whose father is said to be an underground tax collector.”

“Jonah Achumi is a young dynamic intellec-

tual, writer, social activist and a lay church worker and our leader whose writings and contributions for social reforms have been widely acknowledged by every strata of the Naga Society and we will never take this cowardly threat lightly,” SOUDA stated.

The threat was issued via inbox on a social networking site, Facebook, when Achumi wrote about illegal immigrants becoming powerful and bold day by day, SOUDA informed and appealed to all Nagas to ‘wake up’ and “realize

how our own people are in danger from these refugees and parasites.”

The Union resolved to take strongest action against the person and warned, “If anything happens to our vice-chairman, be it here in Dimapur or anywhere, Salehk and his family will bear the full responsibility.”

The Union further urged national workers against protecting the “illegal immigrants” who, it stated, “are taking their protection for all their nefarious activities.”

Members of the Chang students’ Union saksi naP sector Tuensang conducted raids on commercial establishment and shops under its jurisdiction on July 21 and seized expired goods. The seized goods were later destroyed.

Mex FIle Dimapur Electrical Division informs Dimapur, July 25 (mExN): The 11kv line from Burma Camp powerhouse to Airport and Purana Bazar could not be restored on July 25 due to frequent snapping of aluminum conductor. While informing this, Dimapur Electrical Division Executive Engineer Er Moameren said that however, the staff are trying to Veineinem singson waves after being crowned Miss dimapur 2014 on July 25 at dima- restore the line and public are request to bear the inpur, nagaland. Photo by Caisii Mao. conveniences.

Dimapur, July 25 some of the things we des- walk) and Limaienla Jamir Khuheto Village GB warns (mExN): Twenty two- perately need to teach our (Beautiful Skin).

The judges of the beau- of imposters year-old Veineinem Sing- children?” Veineinem reson was crowned Miss Di- plied “moral values, sex ed- ty pageant organized by mapur 2014 at the finals of ucation, generosity, brav- Ethnic Group of Nagaland Dimapur, July 25 (mExN): The Khuheto Village the Miss Dimapur beauty ery and self-contentment.” (EGoN) included SP Dima- (Northern Sumi) has in a release from its G.B. Khuheto Yeptho informed of some women roaming around takTwenty three-year- pur V.Z. Angami, Joint Di- ing the name of the village and extorting money on the contest held here at Hotel old Kevizenuo Dozo and rector DUDA Dr. Amongla pretext of raising fund for Church building. The women Acacia on Friday night.

The 5.5 feet Veineinem 17-year-old Vilokali Sumi Imlong Phom and entre- are impersonating members of the said village and askwho aspires to become an were adjudged first and preneurs Amenla Therie ing money from the people they visit, the G.B. stated administrative officer, ac- second runner-ups re- and Yezato Achumi. and advised people against entertaining these women.

The show was co-spon- The release also requested people coming across the cepted the crown from spectively.

The subtitles winners sored by Nagaland Medi- imposters to inform as these women were indulging in outgoing titleholder and reigning Miss Nagaland, are Kevizenuo Dozo (Miss cine Dealers Association, tarnishing the image and reputation of the village.

Benjongmonla, to the cheers Perfect Ten), Lino Sumi Trinity Communications, (Miss Beautiful Smile), Ao Kitchen, Amonar Tea, ‘Drama on folklores’ postponed of the selected audience.

Veineinem won the Changkhumla Chang BNS host, World of Titan Kohima, July 25 (mExN): The programme on hearts of the audience and (Miss Photogenic), Vein- and Nagaland Bamboo De- ‘Drama on folklores’ organized by the Department judges and edged past oth- einem Singson (Miss Most velopment Agency. of Art & Culture, Nagaland, in collaboration with the A free will donation was North East Zone Cultural Centre (NEZCC), Dimapur, er eight competitors with Popular), Wanmei Walim her confident reply to the (Miss Talented), Ngukum also held to raise money scheduled for July 26 at Tening has been postponed due question posed by one of Konyak (Miss Ethnic), Vilo- for four-year-old Omendi- to unavoidable circumstances. A statement from Art & the judges in the last round. kali (EGoN Fresh Face), ba who will be undergoing Culture Deputy Director Mulai Khiam informed.

To the question “What are Zehovire Kechu (Best Cat- heart surgery.

CondolenCe Messages Kedahge, FGN: The Kedahge, Federal Government of Nagaland, Gen. (Retd.) Viyalie Metha, has expressed ‘profound sorrow and shock’ on the demise of Maj. Gen. L. D. Yongeo, the incumbent GOC, Southern Command, Naga Army, FGN on July 23 at his residence in Kohima.

“I on behalf of the Federal Government of Nagaland convey my heartfelt condolence to the bereaved family members and relatives of late Maj. Gen. L.D. Yongeo and express my deep grief and distress,” Gen. Metha’s message read.

The Kedahge in his

message stated that the late Maj. Gen. L.D. Yongeo had faithfully served the Nation till his last breath.

“He held several high posts like 4th and 10th Brigade Commanders, G.O.C. Northern Command, G.O.C. Southern Command, Naga Army etc. He was a recipient of Long Service Certificate, National Service Certificate, Meritorious Certificate, President Award (III) and Military Cross (MC).

He was a brave Naga Army Officer and a true patriot,” Gen. Metha’s condolence message read.

“His untimely death is

a heavy loss for the Nation and community. Yet his good deeds and true sacrifice for the nation shall always remain alive in the history of our Nation,” Gen. Metha stated.

The Kedahge further prayed that the departed’s soul rest in eternally peace and that God grant peace and solace to the bereaved family.

ranks and files of the Naga Army, Federal Government of Nagaland extend my sincere condolence to the bereaved family members and relatives of late Maj. Gen. L.D. Yongeo,” Maj. Gen. Tavecho’s condolence message read.

“His sudden demise is a great loss for the Naga Army and community as a whole.

However his true sacrifice C-in-C: and patriotism will always Maj. Gen. Tavecho Lala, remain alive in the annals Commander-In-Chief, of the Nation,” the C-in-C’s Naga Army, FGN, has ex- message stated. pressed grief and shock over the death of Maj. Gen. NNC: L.D. Yongeo.

The Naga National Coun“I on behalf of the all cil (NNC) has expressed

heartfelt condolence to the bereaved family of Maj. Gen. L. D. Yongeo, S/o Late L. Ng. Dazii of Shomai Village, Shepuomaranth Region.

A condolence message from L. Kaiso, Secretary, NNC, stated, “The sacrificial life and national service carried out to promote the Naga National cause is in high order in the running history of the country.

“The loss is very grievous for Shepuomaranth Region in particular and Nagaland at large,” Kaiso stated.

Kaiso further prayed that the Almighty God grant the bereaved family solace at this grievous occasion.

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Long odds for justice in MH17 disaster John Heilprin associated Press

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nyone hoping to bring to justice whoever downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 must face sobering facts. The wreckage scene is compromised, key evidence may have disappeared altogether and political complexities could block an international court from hearing the case.

If Russian nationals were involved in the disaster that claimed 298 lives, they could prove untouchable: The Russian constitution forbids extradition of its citizens. And, as legal heir to the Soviet Union, Russia has never paid a ruble in compensation to families of the 269 people killed in the 1983 shootdown of a Korean airliner by the Soviet Air Force.

What's more, as a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, Russia has the right to veto any attempt by the United States or another member of that body to bring a case before the International Criminal Court. There are other avenues to get there, but they are fraught with problems.

The airliner's destruction over eastern Ukraine on July 17 might qualify as a war crime or a crime against humanity, but winning a guilty verdict would be difficult because it would require proving

there was a systematic or widespread attack against civilians, experts said.

And if pro-Russian rebels in the self-styled "Donetsk People's Republic" were behind the plane's downing by a missile, as U.S. authorities suggest, they may be out of legal reach for the foreseeable future. They also still control the site where the Boeing 777 went down.

"I think the key decision to be made by the prosecution is actually whether there is sufficient basis to begin criminal investigation," said Goran Sluiter, professor of international law at Amsterdam University. "And a key factor would be how feasible it will be to collect the evidence."

Despite the long odds, many are hungry for justice. "Malaysia Airlines was a clearly identified commercial jet," said Tony Tyler, CEO of the global airline industry's Genevabased International Air Transport Association.

"And it was shot down — in complete violation of international laws, standards and conventions — while broadcasting its identity and presence on an open and busy air corridor at an altitude that was deemed to be safe."

European Union foreign ministers unanimously demanded on Tuesday that those responsible be brought to justice, and that every-

Graffiti under a railway bridge commemorates the victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday, July 24, 2014. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte says he is sending 40 unarmed military police to eastern Ukraine as part of a ramped-up effort to find the last victims of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 still at the crash site. Rutte told The Associated Press he is sending the police not as security for the site in rebel-held territory but as “extra hands and eyes to look for remaining remains and personal belongings” of victims. (AP Photo)

one cooperate with the investigation. The Dutch national safety board has announced it will lead an international team of 24 investigators. The Dutch have already delivered the plane's voice and data recorders to British investigators, who plan to retrieve information on the flight's last moments and check for signs of any tampering.

U.S. officials in Wash-

ington have cited communications intercepts, satellite imagery and social media postings as evidence Russia created the "conditions" for the downing of the Malaysian Airlines plane by a missile. But one cautioned that there likely won't be a "Perry Mason moment" that clearly reveals who was to blame, like in the TV shows and stories featuring the fictional crimi-

nal defense attorney.

If there were direct evidence of Russian involvement, experts say it might be possible to bring the case before The Haguebased ICC, even over Russia's objections. Ukraine and Malaysia aren't members of the court, but could temporarily submit to its jurisdiction. However, as long as the Netherlands or other countries pursue a national prosecu-

tion in the downing of the Ukraine jet, the ICC won't get involved, since it exists to hear cases as a last resort.

The lack of security at the two main wreckage sites — and images of separatist rebels rifling through the debris in the days after the attack — have stirred fears that vital evidence was contaminated or may have disappeared altogether.

Carsten Stahn, an international criminal law expert at Leiden University in the Netherlands, said the compromised evidence — common to wartime situations — shouldn't stop crime experts from being able to piece together what happened and taking it to court.

"One of the closest precedents is the Lockerbie attack," Stahn said, referring to the 1988 Libyan plot that brought down a Pan Am jumbo jet, killing 270. "That led to a Scottish trial in the Netherlands.

This incident might lend itself to a similar formula."

Malaysia could also bring a civil claim against Russia in an international court if it could be shown that that country aided or abetted the attack. That could lead to a settlement and payment, as happened after Iran Air Flight 655 was shot down accidentally by a U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser in 1988.

Sluiter, the Amsterdam-based law professor, said even if evidence is missing, forensic experts can still determine a lot, such as the size and impact of the suspected missile, by sorting through debris. He also said that pursuing the case as a war crime would entitle it to the benefits of the Geneva Conventions, which oblige other countries to arrest or extradite suspects.

"The starting point

from the Dutch prosecution service seems to be that we are talking about a war crime," noted Sluiter, adding that Dutch courts can try suspects even if they are never arrested or are absent at trial.

Prosecution by a country like the Netherlands would likely rely on phone intercepts, satellite imagery and witness accounts, said Michael Scharf, interim dean of Case Western Reserve University School of Law. He suggested the case would be best pursued as an alleged act of terrorism under the 1973 Montreal Sabotage Convention, which covers the bombing of civil aircraft.

One reason: The treaty grants jurisdiction to any country whose aircraft was bombed or that suffered the loss of victims — in this case, primarily Malaysia and the Netherlands.

"Nearly every country in the world, including Russia, is a party to this counter-terrorism treaty," Scharf said. "The convention applies to bombings of civil aircraft, whether the bomb is planted aboard the plane or is fired from the ground."

"If the perpetrators or their superiors become known," he said, "it is likely that the Dutch will ultimately issue an indictment and arrest warrants, and that Interpol will issue a Red Notice, which is the equivalent of an international arrest warrant."

McIlroy is poised to be golf's next big thing Cuba looks to mangroves to fend off rising seas Doug Ferguson

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olf has been looking for the next big star the last five years, and Rory McIlroy is the most obvious candidate.

With his name on the claret jug and his Irish eyes now focused on a green jacket, McIlroy took a big step toward the career Grand Slam with four dominant days at Royal Liverpool. He looks unbeatable at times like this.

Boy Wonder has it all — skill, strength, shot-making. Throw in a great week with the putter and it's not a fair fight.

But being the next big star is not the same as being the next Tiger Woods.

Or even another Jack Nicklaus.

Nicklaus and Woods are defined by the majors, so it's natural for the 25-year-old McIlroy to be linked with them after his two-shot victory in the British Open. Nicklaus and Woods were the only players younger than McIlroy to win three legs of the Grand Slam.

Nicklaus had the U.S. Open, Masters and PGA Championship when he was 23. He had been a pro for two years. Woods had the Masters, PGA Championship and U.S. Open when he was 24 and in his fourth full year as a pro.

Woods added the career slam a month later. McIlroy had a head start. He turned pro when he was 18. This is his seventh year playing the majors. More than the majors, however, is a body of work that keeps Woods in a different league. At least for now.

"We used to say there will never be another Nicklaus, and then along came Tiger," Phil Mickelson said. "You never want to discount the possibility of someone coming along and dominating. But nobody has really asserted themselves week in and week out the way Tiger did for such a long period of time. We'll have great performances, like Rory this week, like (Martin)

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Kaymer at the U.S. Open and so forth.

"But it's very hard to do that week in and week out the way Tiger did," he said. "That's why it was so impressive what he did."

Woods had a dip in his game when he overhauled his swing toward the end of his first full season on tour. Once he sorted that out, he won seven out of 11 majors. More than just majors, however, he won 28 tournaments worldwide in a three-year span.

McIlroy, who now has 13 wins worldwide, has been prone to inconsistent play. He missed four cuts in a five-tournament stretch in the summer of 2012 before going on a tear by winning the PGA Championship, consecutive FedEx Cup playoff events and the money title on both sides of the Atlantic.

He went to No. 1 in the world and looked as if he would stay there for a generation. But he didn't win last year until late November in Australia. Blame that on a combination of signing a new equipment deal, getting into bad habits with his swing and changing management for the second time, this one leading to a legal dispute

that still has to be worked out in court.

Off the course, he got engaged to tennis star Caroline Wozniacki, and then surprised everyone five months later by breaking the engagement over the phone. Never a dull moment with McIlroy. As great as he looked at Hoylake, even more intriguing is where McIlroy goes from here. With so much emphasis on the Masters and a shot at the Grand Slam, McIlroy had to remind himself there is one major still to play before then. The PGA Championship at Valhalla is three weeks away.

He is still No. 2 in the world behind Adam Scott, who has the consistency McIlroy needs, but not a reliable putter. It seems to be only a matter of time before McIlroy gets to the top and tries to stay there a little longer.

Even if he's not the next Tiger, he can be the next dominant player.

"Some of the guys will have heard me say that golf is looking to someone to put their hand up and try, and I said at that time I want to be that person," McIlroy said. "I want to be the guy that goes on and wins majors, and wins ma-

jors regularly, wins tournaments. I'd love to be in that position. And I've had chances before to kick on from there. I did after my second major at Kiawah.

I kicked on for another six months and played really well.

"I just want to think ahead and go forward ... because I feel like there's a lot more left in me."

The closer McIlroy gets to being that top player, the more appreciation there is for the dominance Woods enjoyed for so many years.

Graeme McDowell is among those who don't expect to see anything like that in his career, if ever.

And this is a guy who has been raving about McIlroy since Boy Wonder was still a boy.

"Someone like Rory or Adam maybe could do it. They're that good," McDowell said. "But so is everyone else, unfortunately.

So that type of dominance, I don't think we're going to see that again for a while unless somebody comes out who has perfected the imperfectable."

Is Rory golf's next big star? Possibly. Another dominant player like Woods? "I don't see it happening," McDowell said.

"Could prove me wrong."

any people in this hamlet on the southern coast of Cuba remember when the shore lay about 100 meters (yards) farther out. That was four decades ago.

Since then, rising waters have gradually swallowed up rustic homes, a narrow highway that once paralleled the coast, even an old military tank that people now use to measure the sea's yearly advance.

"There was a road there," said Jose Manuel Herrera, 42, a fisherman and former charcoal harvester, pointing toward the gentle waves. "You could travel from here all the way to Mayabeque."

Worried by forecasts of rising seas from climate change, the effects of hurricanes and the salinization of farmlands, authorities say they are beginning a forced march to repair Cuba's first line of defense against the advancing waters — its mangrove thickets, which have been damaged by decades of neglect and uncontrolled logging.

In the second half of 2013, a moratorium was declared on mangrove logging. Now, the final touches are being put on a sustainable management master plan that is expected to be in place before the end of the year. President Raul Castro has said the plan is a top priority.

What makes the effort vital and closely monitored by environmentalists is that Cuba is one of the few places left in the Caribbean with extensive mangrove forests. Cuba accounts for about 69 percent of the region's current mangroves, the New Yorkbased Environmental Defense Fund says. Mangroves act as both a barrier to the sea and a saltwater filter, making them important for coastal health.

Even in Cuba, experts say the situation is critical.

"The situation is bad.

More than 30 percent of the mangroves are in a critical state," government forest scientist Reynier Samon

said on a recent tour of Surgidero de Batabano, an area where deforestation has been extreme. The rest, he said, are in a state of medium deterioration.

Mangroves historically have been harvested heavily, for textile dyes, tannins used in the pharmaceutical industry, lumber for furniture and charcoal that rural Cubans rely on to fire their kitchens.

But healthy mangrove stands are important to alleviating one of the island's biggest headaches: Rising seas stand to wipe 122 towns off the map and penetrate up to 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) inland in low-lying areas by 2100, posing a serious threat to coastal communities and agriculture, according to a government study last year.

Efrain Arrazcaeta, who runs a local environmental nonprofit, has witnessed the phenomenon with growing alarm. His group estimates a 2-meter (6.6-foot) maritime advance each year, using the submerged tank as a reference point.

"If the mangroves are restored, the mitigation of these effects will be notable," Arrazcaeta said.

No details of the mangrove plan have been made public. It will apparently include sustainable exploitation measures with some logging for the pharmaceutical industry under study, though the

moratorium will remain more or less in place.

Officials are also waging a public awareness campaign to educate coastal residents to be caretakers of the tangled, mosquito-infested thickets. The campaign shows them how their own homes and farms are at stake and urges them to protect freshwater streams vital for maintaining the right saline levels.

"The perception of the importance of this ecosystem for these communities is low. They see it as something to exploit," said Samon, the government scientist.

Extensive reforestation isn't easy. There's no way of mechanizing the process, which means brigades of workers will have to wade into the swampy terrain and plant each mangrove by hand.

Even deciding what to plant where requires careful study. Red mangroves thrive next to the sea, black mangroves a few meters (yards) inland, "yana" mangroves beyond that.

And if you plant any variety in a place that's too salty or not salty enough, it will die.

Financing for the plan comes from various ministries as well as a U.N. program on climate change adaptation. Officials declined to give budget figures, but said it's in the millions of dollars.

Samon said that in

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the past year some 36,000 hectares (89,000 acres) of mangroves have been successfully replanted nationwide. The measure complements other programs to relocate coastal buildings, protect sand dunes and regulate how close hotels can be to the sea.

In Surgidero, residents say the logging moratorium and some small initial reforestation have already had a noticeable effect. Seen from the sea, the coastline looks greener, they say.

"There is a cay that formed just from the (new) mangroves and in one year it grew to a good size," said Alexis Duarte, a fisherman.

Studies show that while mangrove loss across the Americas is about 3.6 percent per year, Cuba has recorded net gains in recent years.

Dan Whittle, Cuba program director for the Environmental Defense Fund, said Cuba "is probably the model for other countries" in the region for the coastal protection measures it has taken over the past decade or so.

However, he said, much work remains and Cuba has a mixed record implementing its protective laws and policies.

Samon says the political will is there to address the challenge. "Now we are in the phase of implementation and boots on the ground. It's urgent."

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THE MORUNG EXPRESS

26 July, 2014

Morung Youth Express

THE INHUMAN CONDITION: State & its Creation of the ‘Extraordinary’ The state tends to “make man an instrument to serve its arbitrary ends, overlooking his individual purposes.” - Wilhelm Von Humboldt, Limits of State Action The ‘Theoretical’ Realities: Extraordinary laws’ clings with its ‘normal’ equivalent in the statute books of many democracies in the contemporary turn. Any ordinary law is ‘ordinary’ only up to the extent that it has the potential to become ‘extraordinary’ in the wake of any ‘exceptional’ situation. Like we see ‘seemingly sleeping’ armies at ‘strategic’ points even as the sovereign slumbers only to awaken when a normal situation ‘threatens’ to become an ‘exceptional’ situation. It has become a ‘technology’ of the state which is employed to restrict, deny or suspend even the basic civil rights, liberties and freedom of its citizens. Contrary, any ‘law’ that is against the rights, liberties and freedom surely comes in the way of democracy which elicits for the promotion of a democratic milieu. Such ‘extraordinary laws’ go against the democratic spirits by way of ‘justified claims’ that such laws are temporarily imposed in order to deal with certain ‘extraordinary’ situations.

However, the nature of such laws is such that it only reverses from being temporary to a permanent state of being. Today, we are witness to a spectacle which has only provoked the worst imagined. Thus, the state especially the modern state presents a serious threat to human dignity. The state in enforcing their own vision of the ‘good life’ for its citizens comes in the way of equal concern and respect wherein privileging rights of its citizens is further entrenched.

The state as the bearer of sovereign power can make its citizens either ‘live’ or ‘die’ which is evident in places like urban slums where communities of poor dwellers are abandoned, animalised and slowly made into social outcasts like the lepers who were cast off the city walls into the zone of ‘non-humans.’ Ironically, these ‘spaces’ where a government dehumanizes its own citizens, becomes the means through which sovereign power is realized. Such realization of sovereign power can be best highlighted through the case of the “muselmann” of the Nazi death camps, the camp inmate who was no longer considered human but who was close to death. The most likely explanation of “musel-

Prisoners at the US prison camp in illegally occupied Guantanamo. (File Photo)

mann” can be had in the literal meaning of the Arabic word Muslim, the one who submits unconditionally to the ‘will of Allah.’ Likewise, the “muselmann” had fully surrendered his life to the sovereign power of the Nazi officials.

One is only made to ponder upon this aberrant human condition. While once the answers perhaps seemed self-evident, today this is far from the case - it has only become more pronounced and contentious. Technological advancements have moved both life and death from the natural realm into the ‘realm of decision’ on life and death and hence the realm of sovereign power. Today, Bioethics engages in contentious questions as, when does an embryo become life? When does a fetus become too old to abort? When is a person declared dead - end of the heartbeat or Brain death? Beyond the zone of such forced debates, another more sinister redefinition of the threshold between the human and the inhuman is taking place within the domain of politics that is rapidly being subsumed into “biopolitics.” One can assert for the inalienable rights attached to humans vis-à-vis the inscription of biological life into the realm of state power and of politics. But such assertion only brings a correlation with the power of the state which turns human life into a site for political control.

Today our bodies are regulated and every move monitored and controlled like the prisoners in state penitentiaries who are being monitored from the panopticon. We become a ‘suspect’ any moment bowing to the will of the sovereign power as a citizen of

the state. Our ‘qualified rights’ gets negated and return to a ‘bare life’ and every moment of our lives we are led to question our very own existence especially political existence.

Within such negation there is a process of categorization of the citizens which involves physical elimination of those who cannot be integrated into the political system.

The gradual loss of existential meaning is not just a mere theoretical postulate but a fact.

We are not new to the tumultuous contemporary times witnessing terrorism, killings, murder, rape, torture. Where is the scope for those civilised principles of jurisprudence?

What about the idea of ‘fair trail’ in the eye of law? People getting killed and Women being raped and brutally murdered are becoming common place in the state and charges would still be heaped upon the dead, more often to justify the killings. In archaic Roman law there is a figure called ‘Homo Sacer’ or the ‘sacred man’ – an offender who can be killed with impunity to the one who kills but the ‘sacred man’ cannot be ‘sacrificed’ and thus placed out of bounds of law. It shows that the political order has been constituted on the ‘body’ of the ‘excluded’ and such a condemned ‘body’ is far detached beyond any discourse on justice, ethics and morality. The reality is that the sovereign states can claim unaccounted power and the constitutional sanction to even, perpetrate, indefinitely, a regime of gross violation of human rights. The United States never declared war on Iraq rather it was ‘tagged’ as the search for ‘chemical weapons of mass destruction’ under the banner of ‘global war against terrorism’ legitimated by 9/11

which became a permanent marker even as the US Guantanamo prison camp at Cuba continues to exist outside the US territory and its constitutional laws. Today, the sovereign exception as a paradigm of government has become itself the rule of law. In so doing it excludes itself from the purview of law while at the same time the sovereign exception itself creates and guarantees any exceptional situation that the law needs for its validity.

Public order, safety and security can thus be declared disturbed any moment.

Liberal understanding of the state sees it as the provider and guarantor of life and dignity of an individual citizen. This tantamount to the survival of the state that becomes a pre-requisite for the protection of ‘rights’ of the individual citizen. Conversely, if the state is presumed under threat, it can invoke the exceptional laws by which the rights of the individual citizen is ‘temporarily’ suspended so that the sovereign power can use whatever force at its disposal to ensure the survival of the state itself.

This is enshrined even in the Indian Constitution under “emergency provisions” in order to deal with situations that is perceived as a threat to “national security” or when a country feels that her security is threatened particularly those threats posed by armed movements. It is in such situations, through the legitimization of extraordinary Act’s like AFSPA, violence in the form of killings is resorted to and justified in order to protect the state. It is in such situations that the ‘sleeping’ military which is being kept away from internal affairs is put to task to deal with such situ-

ations. Noam Chomsky has rightly asserted that the state is a profoundly antihuman institution.

India’s North East: Witnessing the ‘Extraordinary’: India’s North East has witnessed and still continues to witness a kind of syndrome, where, the subsequent increase of ‘extraordinary laws’ has made preventative and exceptional measures a part of the normal legislative framework. As instruments of the state, these laws seek to restrict, suspend or deny the civil liberty of the individual citizens. These laws contravene the spirit and principles of democracy which is central to the individual’s dignity and civil liberty. And very undemocratically such claimed “temporary measures” however, tend to traverse a trajectory that makes them permanent rather than temporary.

The Armed Forces Special Powers Act of 1958 (AFSPA) an instrument of the state allows the armed military forces to enter the public space in the name of aiding civil power which is just a fragment of legal fiction, a tragic comic, that cover up the real nature of the Act. It is a juridico-political Act that operates in a zone of indistinction between law and politics. The AFSPA comes into force once an area is declared as ‘disturbed.’ This is the moment when the exception becomes the rule and the ordinary becomes ‘extraordinary.’

And we know the unrestricted and unaccounted powers that are vested on the hands of the armed forces once an area is declared ‘disturbed’ in order to ‘maintain public order.’ But without a doubt, it only seeks to supplant rather than supplement civil authority. Within such underlying reality, such Acts only marks the moving threshold across which a human passes into non-human.

Today, even after more than 50 years since its imposition, the Indian government has deliberately failed to respond to the question for which the answer is quite obvious - Does India’s North East pose a threat to the ‘national security’?

Given humanity’s ongoing experience with ‘sovereign’ power, which has become its own principle and practice, it has only resulted in the eventual dehumanisation of its people. Governed by a survival instinct, and as Thomas Hobbes puts it, “a fear of lawlessness” which is encrypted in our collective conscience, we seek an order. Such an order today seems to come only with the price of dehumanisation.

Dr. Asangba Tzudir

What does it take to go cashless?

Dharmarajan Krishnan

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IANS

n the past, it passed for a moment of instant fun. In shops, behind the busy payments counter, you saw this advisory on bold display: "In God we trust, others pay cash!"

This was their way of telling the customer that you’d better pay for the purchase cash down, no running after in case you default! Long after those times, you are perhaps inclined to believe that the cash-only obsession has withered away. Think again!

True, smart cards are all over the place. Shopkeepers do not have to worry any more about default, as they did in earlier times. Yet, some of them still mumble as you take the card out: “Dekhoji, hamara machine kharaab hai (Look, our machine is not working)!”

Others cut out niceties and warn you upfront that card payment could cost more.

What, then, is the option you are left with as a purchaser? Cash is no more a problem. ATMs are there at every urban street corner and withdrawal costs you nothing. Next time round, learning by experience, you start carrying enough cash with you. Just in case!

But does the ATM withdrawal indeed cost nothing? Ask the banker. For he knows where the shoe pinches. It costs the bank a good Rs.15 a transaction. Add another Rs.5, given the new requirement to position security guards outside ATM booths after the recent spate of daring robberies. All this does not move the un-

pinched customer a wee-bit. For banks are mandated by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to subsidise the ATM withdrawals. Yes, free withdrawal passes for a customer right!

But where there is no free service mandated, banks have their own ways. Take cheque payments, for instance. An easy alternative to cash, banks make the customer pay for the cheque book. Again, Internet-based banking comes with its own price tag.

If there is one takeaway in all this, it is that the customer should pay for efficiency, while banks subsidise inefficient transaction modes.

So, then, all the talk of curbing cash economy seems just that - plain talk.

Any rational observer may be forgiven for concluding that the system as a whole is rather set to promote cash.

Massive income tax campaigns are a case in point. They remind the taxman-weary citizen: "Beware as you use your card! We know it all."

Last heard, returns of taxpayers making aggregate credit card purchases of over Rs.200,000 per year were being automatically flagged by tax systems as potential candidates for scrutiny. Why should someone paying his utility bill or making a small purchase through a credit card be prima facie worthy of suspicion? Can a mode of payment backed by "know your customer" and audit trail raise eye brows, given that the very same payment sails through when handed over as cash?

There are less intrusive ways to isolate

credit card repayments by cash, if that be the concern.

Quite clearly, what we need is coherence in policies -- not a situation where one set of policies promotes cash infusion, directly or indirectly, while another mindset actively tracks cash transactions because these are likely to have originated from unaccounted sources.

What could be an elegant way forward? No one wants a charge on ATM withdrawal as a disincentive to cashout and pay. But surely, there is a case for some sort of an incentive for those of us willing to go cashless - through a credit card or debit card maybe, through internet or mobile banking, or by just signing away a cheque leaf.

Now what could that incentive be?

It could be a nominal 5% set-off on tax payable by those who spend more than 80% (or some other threshold) of their income in cashless transactions. This can be quite easily determined. A routine bank statement showing non-cash and cash debits separately would do. No new hassle this. Tax payers do furnish personal banking information showing interest income accrued and tax payable or deducted. So administering such incentive should involve no extra load, either on the banks or on the taxpayer.

Overall, rewarding of non-cash spending through a tax incentive should have a wholesome effect. It will help foster transparency, bring greater efficiencies in financial transactions

and boost the economy and revenues.

In particular, it would be welcomed by vast numbers of people who spend tax paid money from bank accounts.

For once, the government would have targeted a tax exemption on the honest taxpayer -- a small bonus to demand cashless transaction while shopping. The greater the transaction value, the more the incentive for the customer to go cashless. Also, a shop not accepting card or cheque runs the risk of losing business to the next shop.

Already, banks charge for many a non-ATM transaction and need not worry on this score. Digital infrastructure is in place, and added volumes will only reap greater economies of scale. New innovations are leveraging the spread of mobile technology, and growing numbers of small vendors across the country can now transit to the world of cashless business.

In what’s win-win for all, enforcement agencies also will now have reason to smile. More and more transactions would become accountable, covering both the spender and the recipient. In particular, from the indirect tax perspective, all sales transactions will be traceable.

Going forward, cash withdrawal subsidy need not be limited to the middle class and the affluent. Increased cheque and electronic transactions may help release subsidy funds to support low cost banking channels for the urban and rural poor.

But then that would be another story.

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The church is in need of real leadership

Can’t the church leaders see what is going wrong in the Christian state? Or are they also living under the thread of the barrel of the gun and scared to die? We at least expect the church leaders to speak truth and support what is right for mankind. Should the leaders build beautiful churches and compromise with all the anti-Christ activities by its members? There is no doubt, today the churches are experiencing spiritual bankruptcy but the so called leaders are still busy raising funds for certain worldly projects which has nothing to do with Christ. Is the building more important than people? Is the glamour more important than ethics and principle of Christ? Are the bureaucrats and ministers more important than sick and the poor members of the church?

It is so easy for the leaders to criticize or even up to extend of condemn the wrong doing of poor and the weak but never dare even to speak against the undergrounds who are exactly doing what Christians are not supposed to do. Should the public get on their knees and beg the church leaders to speak the truth at least once in a while? Surprisingly, the holy spirit, visions and the prophecies in Nagaland always play a safer game and never dare to come out publicly to challenge the evils of the society.

Today the Acaut is doing what we expect from the church. The leaders of this organization may not be going to church regularly like those hypocrites but in my heart they are true Christian leaders for me.

Kevitho Naga: Why is the Church maintaining stoic silence on all the injustices around? Why is it only obsessed about enforcing Liquor prohibition? Why do they go all loud on Clean election only on the eve of the election? I believe Clean election campaign should start Five years in advance with just a direction given to the pastors to talk of "one man. one vote" once in a while in their respective Churches on Sundays.

I really want to know from our wise Church leaders why are they maintaining so much silence on Corruption and other injustices which is right there to be seen the moment they step out of their home when they are greeted with pot holes? Has Complacency and the greed for power and recognition set in? Apex Baptist, Catholic, Revival, Pentecostal, etc... bodies why are you so silent? Have you taken an oath? Don't you know Jesus was the loudest when it came to criticizing wrong doings? He spared no one not even His closest friend Peter and we are told by Jesus to emulate him.

Plus I want to question the VIP System prevailing in our Churches where the front rows are reserved for Ministers and Big shots.

Where in the Bible is it written that front rows should be reserved for important persons?

Why this class system in our Churches? In God's Holy Sanctuary everyone is equal. A lowly peon and an IAS is equal inside the Church.

Why after Church services gets over Pastors only go and shakes hand with the Ministers and Rich people and not shake hands with that peon who in fact is most in need of a simple hand shake?

Khekiye Sema: The amount of garbage heaped up on the Church leaders ought to have triggered some reaction from the Church by now...but all of them seem to be busy protecting their rear ends only. The fear of the Lord is very secondary...the fear of losing their comfort zones and financial connection is more supreme. They are afraid even to have an open discussion with the secular world because they have no answers. ACAUT has sought for a formal coordination meeting with the Church leaders but they have shown no willingness to do so. What a sick tragedy!

How Nagaland Govt is troubling the Naga Science Students

Hikeno Yeptho: This is especially concerning the students who take up MBBS course under the state reservation.

Every Year, our Students get admissions in different colleges very late. Late by more than a Month. Missing classes by more a month is not something small, Its very troublesome for the students. They go very much behind students from other states.

Sometimes the Colleges there think our students will not be coming and so they try to give away our seats to people from other states, which is even more troublesome, not just for the students but even for the Guardians.

They have to go to different offices and institute to get back their seats. And our Govt. seem to be unaware of it. The excuse that Govt. give is that our seats have not arrived from the centre. Even the counselling for different seats are not done at a time, they first do for North-east and then for the seats outside North-east, this division of counselling create alot of confusion among the students.

If this is the EXCUSE, I want to ask, "If other neighbouring states like Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh can conduct their own exams, Counsel their selected students and send them on time for admission and classes, What is wrong with our State and its System?"

Even recently, our students have to REAPPEAR the exams to take the MBBS course because our Govt. and system decided to follow the AIPMT and now our students could not fullfill the AIPMT criteria. Other states had their own exams and so they don’t have much problem with it.

Month before our state results were even out, Mizoram already had their state counselling for their state reserved state. Our State and its System have to change a lot.

Especially when our State don’t even have one proper college and we are relying on other states even for education. We can’t go on begging other states and different institutes for the mistake which we keep on committing each and every year.

This is a very Serious Problem our State have to understand and make a Change as soon as possible. This is Shameful, for the unawareness, cowardice and Selfishness of some, the innocent students are suffering!

(The Naga Blog was created in 2008 by Yanpvuo Kikon. This column in The Morung Express will be a weekly feature every Saturday)

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NATIONAL

Saturday 26 July 2014

The Morung Express

As protests intensify, government tells UPSC aspirants for patience

New Delhi, July 25 (iANS): As hundreds of UPSC aspirants held noisy protests Friday, the Narendra Modi government appealed them to be “patient” about their demand for scrapping the Civil Service Aptitude Test (CSAT) and said “no injustice” will be done to them.

The civil services aspirants held fresh protests in two places in the national capital. When hundreds of students tried to march to parliament, police detained around 300 of them.

On Thursday violent student protests Police said one student tried to pour kerosene on himself at Mukherjee Nagar in north Delhi, but was saved before he could lit the matchstick.

The protests also inconvenienced thousands of commuters as the Delhi Metro shut two of its busy stations - Central Secretariat and Udyog Bhawan - for more than two hours.

Seeing the aggressive mood of the protesting students, Minister of State for Personnel and Public Grievances Jitendra Singh made a statement in the Rajya Sabha.

He said a three-member committee was constituted in March last year and has been directed to submit its report in a week’s time.

“The candidates will not suffer and the issuance of admit cards should not be a worry,” the minister said in the house.

The reaction followed protests by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) aspirants, which turned violent Thursday with students burning a bus, a police van and a motor-bike in Mukherjee Nagar. As many as 20 people have been arrested.

Jitendra Singh, who met Modi to appraise him of the situation, tried to assure the students and said that the government was taking the matter seriously.

But the opposition was not satisfied with the minister’s response.

The opposition continued to protest and the upper house was adjourned till 2.30 p.m.

Earlier, the Rajya Sabha was adjourned twice during the question hour following the opposition’s demand for a clarification by none other than the prime

minister or Leader of the House on the issue.

The matter figured in the Lok Sabha too though it did not lead to any adjournment.

“This is not just an issue of Hindi, but all regional languages,” Congress member of the Lok Sabha Ranjeet Ranjan said. Members expressed their concern in the upper house as well.

Congress leader Digvijay Singh said that the Congress was ready to fight for UPSC aspirants both inside and outside Parliament.

Jitendra Singh, talking to reporters outside parliament earlier, said: “The government has full sympathy with the students.”

“There won’t be any injustice, especially on the basis on language. However, students must also show some patience,” the minister said.

“The government has sympathy and also has the clarity that there shouldn’t be any injustice with the students,” he added.

He said the government was waiting for a report on the matter and will take decision only for the good of students.

“I assure you that within one week we have sought the report of the committee... Today I have again told the Committee to give the report within one week.

As the report comes, further action will follow,” the minister said.

“We would also like to request and appeal to the students to maintain calm as the government too is worried about the issue.

The decisions will be taken on the basis of the committee’s report,” added Singh.

The minister has also assured that issuing of admit cards does not indicate that it would influence the report of the three-member committee.

Civil services aspirants have been demanding the scrapping of Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT), calling it discriminatory for the students from humanities and Hindi backgrounds.

The CSAT-II paper carries questions on comprehension, interpersonal skills including communication skills, logical reasoning and analytical ability, decision-making and problem-solving, general mental ability, basic numeracy, and English lan-

guage comprehension skills (of Class 10 level).

Students have been objecting to the level of aptitude and English language questions being asked in the CSAT II paper, claiming they are much above the standard prescribed for the examination.

The protest intensified after UPSC started issuing admit cards to the aspirants for the preliminary exam scheduled to be held Aug 24.

“We will continue our protest until we get a written assurance that the examination date will be extended and the CSAT exam will be scrapped,” Anurag Chaturvedi, an aspirant, told IANS. He added the students have wasted a lot of time because of the ongoing protests and cannot prepare for the Aug 20 examination in 25 days.

Another aspirant, R.V. Yadav added: “Hindi is our national language and it is being sidelined.”

“Our protest will continue till the demands are met. Police can’t stop us,” said Rajesh Mishra, an aspirant, as the police forced him inside a bus.

Indian Muslims protest against Israel's attack on Gaza, before offering Friday prayers at Jama Masjid in New Delhi, India on July 25. (AP Photo)

Wait not long to get black BJP, Shiv Sena’s politics based on bullying people, says Rahul money back: Arun Jaitley

New Delhi, July 25 (iANS): Finance minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi government was moving fast on bringing back the ill-gotten money stashed away by Indians in tax havens abroad.

“I can assure that you don’t have to wait for long to see that we have brought back the black money,” the finance minister said in the Lok Sabha during his reply to the debate on the national budget, which was later passed by a voice vote.

“Our government has formed a Special Investigating Team (SIT),” he said, adding: “If the SIT wants to take steps, the government will give full cooperation.

Whatever information we

are getting, we are giving that to Supreme Court as well.” He said the issue of black money - for which there is no official estimate, but only independent studies that value it at between $462 billion and $1.4 trillion - was a concern for the whole country and all agencies must do their bit to get it

back. “There is no need for getting into jurisdiction battle whether it is a court matter or our matter,” he said.

In an answer to a query in the house earlier this week, Jaitley said evidence on black money will come only with the cooperation of countries where the accounts are kept and that the Indian government was alerted about them by the French government.

“They had got a list of names of people who have accounts in the Swiss bank.

This data didn’t reach the French government through any official route.

This data was taken by someone from the HSBC Bank and handed over to the French government,” he said.

7 dead as IAF chopper crashes

luckNow, July 25 (iANS): An Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter crashed in Uttar Pradesh’s Sitapur district Friday, killing all seven people on board, police said. The helicopter was on way from Bareilly to Allahabad. Just before the crash, the pilots reportedly contacted the Air Traffic Control (ATC) and alerted them about a technical glitch. But before the ATC could guide them or send help, the

chopper nose-dived into an agricultural field near Palitpurwa village under the Atariya police station and caught fire. Deputy Inspector General of Police, Lucknow, Navniet Sikera said all on board the helicopter perished in the crash. Quoting IAF officials, he said the chopper had seven people on board. Since the crash site was difficult to access, the police were finding it difficult to reach the spot, an official said.

Surgeons remove 232 teeth from teen MuMBAi, July 25 (AP): Dental surgeons in India’s largest city say they have removed 232 small “tooth-like structures” from the mouth of a teenage boy with a rare medical condition. They said the 17-year-old from a small village in western India had been suffering from jaw pain and swelling for more than 18 months.

Surgeon Dr. Vandana Thoravade said Ashik Gavai suffered complex odontoma, a rare condition in which a tumor grows under a gum and creates smaller tooth-like growths called denticles. “We are very happy, while operating, we were removing one after another denticles and passing on to the medical staff to keep, but when surgery was over and when we spread the denticles and started counting ... while doing the surgery we were unaware that (there were) so many, so many, so many denticles.” He said the team of dental surgeons took seven hours to remove all the denticles in the operation earlier this week. They were surprised at how many they totaled when counted up and believe it may be the most ever in a case of odontoma. The teen is recovering.

AMethi, July 25 (iANS): Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Friday attacked the Shiv Sena and the BJP over the incident in Maharashtra Sadan in which a Shiv Sena MP tried to force-feed a fasting Muslim staffer, saying the two parties base their politics on “bullying

people”.

Talking to reporters in his Uttar Pradesh constituency, Gandhi also slammed the Narendra Modi government over price rise, saying that it has failed to check rising prices of essential commodities despite making promises.

Asked about the Maha-

rashtra Sadan incident, he said it reflected the ideology of the Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party.

“This is the ideology of the BJP and Shiv Sena.

They base their politics on bullying people,” he said.

Shiv Sena MP Rajan Vichare was seen in a video clip trying to force food into the

India’s budget passed

by Lok Sabha

New Delhi, July 25 (iANS): The Lok Sabha Friday passed the Finance Bill, 2014 by a voice vote.

The bill, which is primarily the legislative proposals of the national budget for this fiscal, notably on taxes, will now go to the Rajya Sabha for approval.

The bill was passed after Finance Minister Arun Jaitley gave his reply to the debate on the budget, assuring the house that the measures he has outlined will create more jobs, generate economic activity and achieve higher growth, without burdening the people.

“Our’s is not a high-tax government,” the finance minister said. “A high tax government cannot promote business activity, since it will make domestic products non-competitive.

High taxes also drive consumers away. Consumers buy products, they don’t buy taxes.”

He also assured the house that his government would not resort to indiscriminate levy of taxes with retrospective effect, and said such actions only create additional liabilities on

businesses and send wrong signals to investors.

“We want to revive investor sentiment which had been disturbed.” The national Budget for 201415, which included the Finance Bill, was presented in the lower house of parliament July 10. Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Prakash Javadekar expects the Rajya Sabha to pass it by July 28.

During his reply Friday, the finance minister said the government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi was also moving fast on bringing back the ill-gotten money stashed away by Indians in tax havens abroad. “The country will not have to wait for long for bringing back black money.”

The finance minister also said that he will now try to implement the panIndia Goods and Services Tax regime within the current financial year and that two rounds of discussions had already taken place with the state governments, whose consent is essential.

“I have not gone into the details of it yet due to

the budget exercise. But I now intend to spend some time on it. The government then will take a final view as to what to do,” Jaitley said.

The finance minister again sought to assure the investing community that the government will not levy retrospective tax indiscriminately -- like the one on capital gains that was approved in 2012 with effect from 2007.

“Retrospective taxation sends a very negative signal and it has not helped our economy itself. Therefore, one of my jobs was to find solutions to this problem,” the minister said.

“Of course every parliament has a sovereign right -- a sovereign right to legislate and a sovereign right to legislate retrospectively.

The British parliament imposed several taxes, which are retrospective,” he said.

“But as a policy this government will not use that right to create new liabilities and that is an assurance we want to give to the investors within the country and investors outside, so that we are able to assure people of our stable tax regime.”

mouth of a Muslim staffer who was observing Ramadan fast. It kicked off a political storm Wednesday, with parliament witnessing an uproar.

Attacking the Modi government, Gandhi said the biggest promise made by the National Democratic Alliance was that it will

bring down prices. “The government which has come, its biggest promise was to contain price rise and corruption. The prices of vegetables have gone up.

There has been no solid action on the two issues,” he said. “There is a lot of difference between (their) words and deeds,” Gandhi added.

Cong not entitled to leader of opposition post, says AG New Delhi, July 25 (iANS): In a setback to the Congress’s desire to have its leader in the Lok Sabha given the leader of opposition status, Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi has held that the party cannot get the recognition as its numbers are less than one-tenth of the total strength of parliament’s lower house.

Informed sources said that Rohatgi, in his opinion to Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, said that Mallikarjun Kharge, the Congress leader in the house, cannot be recognised as leader of opposition as the party’s strength was 44 while one-tenth of the total strength of the house is 55.

Sources said Rohatgi has cited in his opinion the ruling of the first Lok Sabha speaker G.V. Mavalankar that the minimum quorum for functioning of the house was onetenth of its strength and the post of leader of opposition must belong to a party whose MPs match the quorum of the house.

Rohatgi also opined

that there has been no leader of opposition at different times due to the strength of parties being less than 55, they added.

The Congress, however, insisted that it should be recognised as the main opposition party in the house and its leader given the status of leader of opposition.

Former union minister Manish Tewari said the AG had given an opinion and it was not binding. “The second largest party in the house needs to be recognised in a proper manner,” Tewari told Times Now news channel. He said the jurisprudence that has evolved over the years had assigned a greater role to the leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha. “For the sake of propriety, for the sake of constructive relationship, the status of largest party needs to be recognised by giving leader of opposition position,” he said. “We have a strong case both on merits and parliamentary conventions,” he said.

‘Hindu Nation’ comments trigger uproar in Goa

Ashik Gavai, 17, sits near 232 tooth-like structures removed from his jaw after undergoing surgery in Mumbai, India on July 25. Dental surgeons in India's largest city say they have removed 232 small "tooth-like structures" from the mouth of the teenage boy with a rare medical condition called Complex Odontoma. (AP Photo)

PANAJi, July 25 (iANS): Controversial comments made by two ministers of the BJP-led Goa government, one wishing for a Hindu nation under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and another claiming India is already one, created an uproar both in the state assembly and across social media Friday.

Minutes after the opposition Congress and an independent legislator staged a walked out demanding a clarification from Co-operation Minister Deepak Dhavalikar for his Thursday’s comments that India would become a Hindu nation if everyone supported Modi, Deputy Chief Minister Francis D’Souza dropped another bombshell, saying

India was always a Hindu country and that he was Christian Hindu.

“India is a Hindu country. It is Hindustan. All Indians in Hindustan are Hindus, including I, am a Christian Hindu,” D’Souza, one of the seniormost minority members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Goa, told reporters in the assembly complex.

The ‘Hindu nation’ comments have found backers amongst Hindu right wing groups, but have also been the target of criticism from other politicians as well as civil society commentators on the social media.

Earlier in the day, Leader of Opposition Pratapsing Rane, while staging a walkout in protest against

Dhavalikar’s comments, said: “He (Dhavalikar) has taken oath on the Constitution which swears by ‘Secular Socialist Democratic Republic’ principles in the preamble. How can he say India will be a ‘Hindu nation’ under Modi? He has to explain this to us.” On Thursday, Dhavalikar, who belongs to regional outfit Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP), while speaking during a motion congratulating Modi on becoming PM had said: “If we all support it and we stand

by Narendra Modi systematically, then I feel a Hindu Rashtra will be established.”

On Friday however, Dhavalikar said that the word “Hindu” had a “big meaning”, adding that he

had no intention to hurt the feeling of people from other religions. Dhavalikar’s colleague Lavu Mamledar however said that the “Hindu Nation” claim is wrong.

“If he has said Hindu nation, then it is wrong, because our country is secular. People of different caste, creed and religion stay in India,” he said. On the social media, in a reaction to the comments by both D’Souza and Dhavalikar, a minority voice has expressed regret at voting for the BJP in the last election.

“We have to blame the Congress for making us so desperate and hurling us into the arms of the BJP. The Congress was arrogant; corrupt with their

family rule. Unfortunately, the cure was worse than the disease. A third alternative is the need of the hour, but it should not be the case of old wine in new bottles!” said Derrick Dias, a banker.

The Hindu Janajagruti Samiti meanwhile has welcomed the comments.

A formal statement released by the Hindu right wing organization says Dhavalikar’s statement gives “solace to millions of Hindus”. “The issue of establishment of the Hindu Nation which was confined only to the Hindus till yesterday has attracted nationwide debate due to Dhavalikar’s statement,” it said. Christians account for nearly 26 percent of Goa’s population.

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No survivors in Air Algerie plane crash PARIS, JULy 25 (IANS/EFE): French President François Hollande confirmed Friday that none of the 116 people on board has survived the Air Algerie passenger plane crash in the desert of Mali Thursday during a flight between Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso and Algiers.

French troops Friday reached the site of the wreckage of the MD-83 aircraft and found one of the black boxes of the jetliner, and sent it to Gao, in the north of Mali, Hollande said. “There are no survivors,” said Hollande in a brief statement, adding that “it is still too soon to reach conclusions” on the cause of the crash, in which 51 French citizens were believed to have perished.

Although bad weather was cited as the most plausible explanation fr teh crash, Hollande said he did not rule out any hypothesis. The plane was spotted in the Malian region of Gossi near the border with Burkina Faso, where French troops were dispatched to gather evidence and secure the area. In a statement, the Elysee Palace said the aircraft had been “clearly identified” even though it had “disintegrated”.

The aircraft, chartered by Air Algerie from Spanish airline Swiftair, went missing early Thursday in bad weather 40 minutes after takeoff from Ouagadougou on a flight to Algiers with 116 people on board, including 51 French passengers and six Spanish crew members. France Thursday dispatched two Mirage fighter jets, a military C-130 aircraft and two helicopters to search for the aircraft.

Hollande said contact with the plane was lost shortly after the pilot asked to change his route due to bad weather conditions. “The only certainty we have is the weather alert,” said French Foreign minister Laurent Fabius. He added, however, that “no hypothesis can be ruled out” when he was asked about the possibility of a terrorist attack in the area, where jihadis are active. Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra said Friday that armed insurgents in northern Mali were helping rescue efforts and were the first to spot the wreckage and inform authorities.

The insurgents, opposed to the central Malian government in Bamako, “have pledged to deploy all rescue efforts and maintain security on the site”, Lamamra said.

The minister also ruled out a technical failure and said the aircraft had recently passed an inspection in France.

The latest airline tragedy comes after a Malaysia Airlines jetliner was downed over eastern Ukraine last week killing all 298 people on board, and a TransAsia Airways plane crash landed in Taiwan Wednesday in bad weather killing 48.

UNDP rankings of humanity’s progress The Associated Press

sis include North Korea, Somalia, South Sudan In its annual report on and Monaco. human development, the United Nations Develop- MOST EQUAL ment Program ranks 187 Slovenia ranks first countries based on mea- in gender equality, a figsures such as the health ure taking into account and longevity of their factors such as materpeople, education and nal death rates and teen income, and personal se- pregnancies, followed by curity. Since 1990, those Switzerland, Germany measures have been com- and Sweden. The U.S. is piled into the agency’s in- ranked 47th, Japan 25th. dex of human development that is watched by SUICIDE RATE governments around the Kazakhstan leads at world. Here are some of 43 per 100,000, followed highlights from its latest by Hungary, Latvia, South global rankings: Korea and Guyana.

THE BEST Top ranked is Norway, followed by Australia, Switzerland, the Netherlands and the United States.

HIGHEST RATE OF IMPRISONMENT The United States is the most prolific jailer, at 716 people per 100,000.

The next highest are St. Kitts and Nevis and the THE WORST Seychelles, Cuba and The five lowest ranked Rwanda. countries are Sierra Leone, Chad, Central Afri- OVERALL LIFE SATIScan Republic, Congo and FACTION at No. 187, Niger.

At the top: Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, UNRANKED Iceland, and the NetherCountries for which lands. At the bottom: Togo, small size or a lack of data followed by Syria, Benin, prevents adequate analy- Rwanda and Madagascar.

SKorean lab fails to find out how ferry owner died SEOUL, JULy 25 (AP): South Korea’s state-run forensic lab said Friday it has failed to find out how a fugitive billionaire blamed for April’s ferry disaster died. Police said Tuesday that a badly decomposed body found in a rural area last month was identified as Yoo Byung-eun. Police cited DNA and fingerprint tests taken by the National Forensic Service. Authorities had sought the 73-year-old, believing he owned the sunken ferry and that his alleged corruption may have contributed to the disaster.

The forensic service said Friday that it has conducted additional tests on Yoo’s body but couldn’t discover the exact cause of his death because the body was decayed too much. Agency chief Seo Joongseok and other forensic doctors told a televised news conference that they did not find any evidence showing that Yoo was poisoned, suffocated or died of external pressures or any disease.

Police have said they haven’t found any evidences that Yoo was murdered.

The discovery of Yoo’s body fueled public criticism against the government following revelations authorities did not even suspect the body found June 12 could be Yoo’s until recently and had still continued massive manhunts for him. Critics say authorities should have paid extra attention to the fact the body was found near one of Yoo’s villas that they raided in May and that some items found near the body could have offered clues to his identity. A high-level prosecutor resigned and two senior police officers were dismissed from their posts amid the criticism but South Korean media said higher-level officials must step down. The government of President Park Geun-hye has already faced public indignation over its handling of the sinking, which left more than 300 people dead, mostly high school students travelling to a southern resort island.

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Pressure for Gaza truce talks; death toll passes 800

An undercover Israeli police officer holds a gun as others detain a Palestinian man during clashes near Jerusalem's Old City on July 25. In Jerusalem, hundreds of Palestinians protested in the traditionally Arab-populated east of the city after Muslim noon prayers, and a dozen protesters threw rocks and fireworks at Israeli police, who fired stun grenades and water cannons. Thousands of Israeli security forces had been deployed for possible Palestinian protests. (AP Photo)

GAZA/JERUSALEM, JULy 25 (REUtERS): U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pressed regional leaders to nail down a Gaza ceasefire on Friday as the civilian death toll soared, and further violence loomed between Israelis and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.

With Israel and Hamasled Islamist fighters setting seemingly irreconcilable terms for a truce that mediators hope will begin by a Muslim festival next week, Kerry worked the phones from Egypt, while aides made clear his patience was waning. The urgency was spurred on Thursday by the killing of 15 people as they sheltered at a U.N.-run school in the northern Gaza Strip, which local officials blamed on Israeli shelling.

Israel said its forces had come under attack from Palestinian guerrillas in the area of the school and that they had shot back. It accused Hamas of preventing any evacuation. Gaza officials said Israeli strikes killed 27 people on Friday, including the head of media operations for Hamas ally Islamic Jihad and his

son. They put the number of Palestinian deaths in 18 days of conflict at 819, most of them civilians.

In the occupied West Bank, where U.S.-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas governs in uneasy coordination with Israel, 10,000 demonstrators marched in solidarity with Gaza overnight - a scale recalling mass revolts of the past. Protesters surged against an Israeli army checkpoint, throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails, and Palestinian medics said one was shot dead and 200 wounded when troops opened fire.

On Friday, Israeli paramilitary police went on high alert for flare-ups at Jerusalem’s most important mosque during prayers for the final stretch of the Ramadan Muslim holy month.

Yitzhak Aharonovitch, Israel’s police minister and a member of the security cabinet, said he was shuttling between consultations on how to contain the rising hostilities.

“We have had a very difficult night,” he told Israel’s Army Radio. “I hope we can get through today all right.”

Focus On Tunnels Israel said an army reservist was killed in Gaza on Friday, bringing to 33 the number of soldiers lost in a ground advance it says aims to destroy dozens of cross-border tunnels used

by Hamas to threaten its southern farming villages and army bases. Three civilians have been killed in Israel by rocket and mortar attacks from Gaza - the kind of shelling that surged last month amid Hamas anger at a crackdown on its activists in the West Bank, prompting the July 8 launch of the Israeli offensive.

A flurry of long-range rocket launches on Friday set off sirens around Israel’s commercial capital of Tel Aviv. Several rockets were shot down by the Iron Dome interceptor. A building was hit in the southern port of Ashkelon but no one was hurt. mIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was to convene the security cabinet on Friday to discuss a limited humanitarian truce under which Palestinian movement would be freed up to allow in aid and for the dead and wounded to be recovered.

A Palestinian official close to the negotiations said Turkey and Qatar had proposed a 7-day halt to the fighting, which had been relayed to Israel by Kerry while Hamas considered it.

An Israeli official acknowledged that the proposal had been received, but said any decision by the Netanyahu government would likely come after Hamas had delivered its own response. mIsrael insists that, even if such a ceasefire is agreed, its army will continue digging up tunnels along Gaza’s eastern frontier, a mission that could take between one and two weeks. Netanyahu has said a truce should also lead to the eventual stripping of Gaza’s rocket arsenals something Hamas rules out.

“We must stop the rocket launches. How this is done - whether through occupying (Gaza), or broadening (the operation), or (international) guarantees, or anything else, I have to see it with my own eyes,” said Aharonovitch.

The rockets have sent Israelis regularly rushing to shelters and dented the economy despite Iron

Dome’s high rate of success. A Hamas rocket intercepted near Ben Gurion Airport on Tuesday prompted the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to halt American commercial flights to Israel’s main international gateway. Some European carriers followed suit.

Jolted by the blow at the height of an already stagnant summer tourism season, Israel persuaded U.S. authorities to lift the flight ban on Thursday, after which the European aviation regulator removed its own advisory against flying to Ben Gurion.

In the second such salvo in as many days, Hamas said it fired three rockets at the airport on Friday, an apparent bid to cripple operations there again. There was no word of impacts at Ben Gurion, whose passenger hall emptied at the sound of sirens.

Hamas Wants Gaza Opened Up Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal had on Wednesday voiced support for a humanitarian truce, but only if Israel eased restrictions on Gaza’s 1.8 million people.

Hamas wants Egypt to open up its border with Gaza, too, and demands that Israel release hundreds of prisoners rounded up in the West Bank last month following the kidnap and killing of three Jewish seminary students. mSuch concessions appear unlikely, however, as both Israel and Egypt consider Hamas a security threat.

One Cairo official said next week’s Eid al-Fitr festival, which concludes Ramadan, was a possible date for a truce. But U.S. officials were circumspect on progress made by Kerry, whose mediation has involved Egypt, Turkey, Qatar and

Abbas, as Washington, like Israel and the European Union, won’t deal directly with Hamas, which it considers a terrorist group.

“Secretary Kerry has been on the phone all morning, and he will remain in close touch with leaders in the region over the course of the morning as he continues work on achieving a ceasefire,” said a senior U.S. State Department official in Cairo, which has been Kerry’s base over the last four days as he has tried to bring about a temporary end to the conflict.

On Thursday, a U.S. official said Kerry was seeking a way of bridging gaps between Israel and Hamas but that the diplomat would not stay in the region “for an indefinite amount of time”. mMore than 140,000 Palestinians have been displaced in Gaza by the fighting, many of them seeking shelter in buildings run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).

An UNRWA spokesman said the agency had tried in vain to arrange with Israel to evacuate civilians from the school in northern Beit Hanoun before it was shelled on Thursday. mScores of crying families who had been living in the school ran with their children to a hospital a few hundred metres away where the victims were being treated. Laila AlShinbari, a woman who was at the school when it was hit, told Reuters that families had gathered in the courtyard expecting to be evacuated shortly in a Red Cross convoy.

“All of us sat in one place when suddenly four shells landed on our heads ... Bodieswereontheground,(there was) blood and screams. My son is dead, and all my relatives are wounded, including my other kids,” she said, weeping.

US senator urges Myanmar to reform constitution

WASHINGtON, JULy 25 (AP): The top-ranking Republican senator issued a strong call for Myanmar to amend its constitution to allow opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to run for president and for the military to submit to civilian rule.

Sen. Mitch McConnell has for years been the most influential voice in Congress on policy toward the country also known as Burma. A longtime critic of the former ruling junta, he’s become supportive of the nation’s shift from mili-

tary rule since 2011. But in a speech to the Senate on Thursday, McConnell said that reforms in the Southeast Asian nation appear to have stalled, leaving Myanmar’s commitment to democracy open to question.

He said failure to amend a constitutional provision that prohibits those such as Suu Kyi with immediate family members who are foreign nationals would “cast a pall” over the legitimacy of national elections in late 2015 in the eyes of the international community and members of the

Senate. Suu Kyi’s late husband was British, as are her two sons.

McConnell said such family ties had no bearing on an individual’s fitness for office. He voiced concern that restriction wasn’t among the changes being considered by a parliamentary committee proposing amendments to the military-era constitution.

“This provision restricts the ability of the people of Burma, through their representatives, to have a choice in who can hold their highest office. This is

profoundly undemocratic.

And it is profoundly undemocratic at a time when Burma’s commitment to democracy is open to question,” McConnell said.

While McConnell did not threaten the reintroduction of trade sanctions lifted last year, he said it was “hard to see” how remaining sanctions would be lifted unless the eligibility issue was addressed.

The U.S. still bans the importation of jade and rubies from Myanmar and blacklists individuals hindering reforms. His com-

ments come amid growing congressional criticism of Myanmar, including over ethnic conflict, restrictions on civil liberties, and antiMuslim discrimination.

But McConnell reiterated his support for U.S. military engagement to help train and reform Myanmar’s armed forces — which the Obama administration wants but many other U.S. lawmakers oppose — saying it could encourage the nation’s powerful military to come under civilian control.

Facing growing inter-

national criticism, Myanmar announced Thursday it was allowing international aid organizations to return to a western region they were expelled from earlier this year after Buddhist mobs disrupted their work helping displaced Rohingya Muslims. More than 140,000 Rohingya have been living in dirty, crowded camps after their villages were destroyed by mobs. Up to 280 people have also been killed, most of them Rohingya, in sectarian violence that began in 2012.

Very bad week: Airline disasters come in a cluster WASHINGtON, JULy 25 (AP): Nearly 300 passengers perish when their plane is shot out of the sky.

Airlines suspend flights to Israel’s largest airport after rocket attacks. Two airliners crash during storms.

Aviation has suffered one of its worst weeks in memory, a cluster of disasters spanning three continents.

Industry analysts and safety experts say they can find no common themes.

Nor do they think the events indicate that flying is suddenly becoming less safe. Less than one in 2 million flights last year ended in an accident in which the plane was damaged beyond repair, according to the International Air Transport Association. That includes accidents involving cargo and charter airlines as well as scheduled passenger flights.

“One of the things that makes me feel better when we look at these events is that if they all were the same type event or same root cause then you would say there’s a systemic problem here, but each event is unique in its own way,” said Jon Beatty, president and CEO of the Flight Safety

Foundation, an airline industry-supported nonprofit in the U.S. that promotes global aviation safety.

But Beatty said he also finds the disaster cluster “a cold reminder” that airline accidents are likely to increase because the industry is growing, especially in developing countries.

The more flights there are, the more potential for accidents, he said.

The misfortunes began July 18 when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine with 298 people on board.

It’s still not clear who fired the missile that destroyed the plane, but Ukrainian officials have blamed proRussian rebels.

The mysterious disappearance in March of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 with 239 people on board, combined with the destruction of Flight 17, added up to more than twice the total global airline fatalities in all of last year, which was the industry’s safest year on record. Ascend, a global aviation industry consulting firm based in London, counted 163 fatalities in 2013 involving airliners with 14 seats or more.

Global aviation leaders will meet in Montreal next week to initiate discussions on a plan to address safety and security issues raised by the shoot-down of the Malaysia Airlines jet, an aviation official said late Thursday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the issue publicly by name.

On Wednesday, a TransAsia Airways plane crashed in Taiwan in stormy weather trailing a typhoon, killing 48 passengers, injuring 10 others and crew and injuring five people on the ground. On Thursday,an Air Algerie flight with 116 passengers and crew disappeared in a rainstorm over Mali en route from Burkina Faso to Algeria’s capital. The plane was operated for the airline by Swiftair, a Spanish carrier.

Together, the disasters have the potential to push airline fatalities this year to over 700 — the most since 2010. And 2014 is still barely half over.

Aviation industry analyst Robert W. Mann Jr. said he doesn’t expect the recent events to deter travelers from flying.

This July 17, photo show people walking amongst the debris at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine. (AP File Photo)

“They’re all tragic, but the global air travel consumer has a very short memory, and it’s highly localized to their home markets where they fly,” he said.

Airline passengers interviewed by The Associated Press said they weren’t overly concerned about their safety.

“It could be happening every day or never again,” said Bram Holshoff, a Netherlands traveler at Berlin’s Tegel Airport. “It’s a bit much that it happened three times this week, but for me nothing will change.”

Lam Nguyen, 52, of Tahiti, who was headed to Los Angeles from Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport, said he considers flying “a very safe mode of transportation.”

“And if it has to happen,

it will happen. ... It doesn’t prevent me from taking planes,” he said.

The shootdown of Flight 17 has raised questions about whether airlines, and the aviation authorities in their home countries, are adjusting flight routes quickly enough when unrest in troubled parts of the world threatens the safety of planes. But aviation safety consultant John Cox, a former airline pilot and accident investigator, said he sees no connection between that event and the other disasters.

“I don’t know how you could respond to anything when there is not a commonality of events,” he said.

“We don’t have a full understanding of the Taiwan accident, and certainly not on the” Air Algerie plane.

Cox attributed the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s decision Tuesday to prohibit flights to Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv to “hypersensitivity” to the possibility of another shootdown.

The FAA issued the order after a Hamas rocket exploded about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the airport.

The prohibition was lifted 36 hours later.

Aviation is “fundamentally safe and getting safer, but can it can always fall prey to the mistakes or ill will of man,” said former FAA chief counsel Kenneth Quinn. “We sometimes forget the magic of flight, or the fragility of life, but this week has brought home the need to appreciate this more and protect both better.”

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Amla, De Villiers in for South Africa

South African batsman AB de Villiers bats during the second day of the second test cricket match between South Africa and Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka on July 25. (AP Photo)

ColomBo, July 25 (rEutErs): South Africa batted cautiously to reach 98 for three as they try to preserve their 1-0 lead in the series in the second and final test against Sri Lanka on Friday. The touring side, replying to the hosts' 421 all out, trailed by 323 runs at the close on the second day with Hashim Amla unbeaten on 46 and AB de Vil-

liers on 11.

Amla had two escapes on 10 and 34, edging a drive off Dilruwan Perera past Mahela Jayawardene’s outstretched hand at slip and then having his stumps shattered by Suranga Lakmal as he moved away from his crease when a crow flew across the pitch. The bowler appealed to the umpire who signalled a dead ball.

Sri Lanka’s only success in the final session was the wicket of Faf du Plessis who was caught brilliantly down the leg side by wicketkeeper Niroshan Dickwella off Lakmal for 36 to end a partnership of 58 with Amla.

Sri Lanka's spinners had taken two early wickets to reduce South Africa to 23 for two at tea. Left-armer Rangana Herath, who

opened the bowling, struck with his fifth ball when he forced Alviro Petersen to hit back a tame return catch with his score on two.

Perera, who replaced fast bowler Lakmal after only four overs, had Dean Elgar, on one, caught off the inside edge off his third ball

by Kaushal Silva at short leg to leave South Africa in trouble on a turning pitch at 13 for two.

Sri Lanka’s first innings ended an hour after lunch with Vernon Philander picking up the last two wickets of Ajantha Mendis (2) and Lakmal (4) to catches by wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock. Debutant Dickwella’s innings of 72 off 116 deliveries ended in a run out when he hesitated over a single to a ball that went off Herath's shoulder and De Kock reacted quickly to throw the stumps down.

Leg-spinner Imran Tahir picked up his first wicket after conceding over 100 runs when he had Perera caught by Amla at mid-on for 12 attempting a big hit.

South Africa's only success of the morning was the wicket of Jayawardene, who had passed 150 for the 16th time in his career before he was run out. The elegant right-hander swept JP Duminy to fine leg and Petersen's direct throw at the stumps caught the diving batsman well short of his ground. His 165 came off 284 balls and included one six and 17 fours.

Organisers and participants of the Egypt Dart Tournament, an event celebrating Egypt’s Independence Day through the game of dart.

Kohima, July 25 (mExN): Naga Darts Association celebrating Egypt’s Independence Day through the game of dart organized Egypt Dart Tournament on July 23 at Kohima. The event was

organized in collaboration with University of Rochester, NY and Nazareth College, USA under the project "59 days of Independence" to celebrate the Independence Days of 59 countries, that once

gained freedom from British rule to promote the idea of "freedom for all, not just for me." This is a stance against colonization in all of its forms, including that which is based upon race, class,

religion, gender, and nationality.

The tournament was conducted by Vikhor Tepa as Tournament Director.

Lima Longchar emerged as the Champion and Aowabang Paul as runner-up.

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WCup over, but some Argentines won't go home

rio DE JaNEiro, July 25 (ap): Lucas Bazan Pontoni rifled through his pockets for the 45-cent lunch fee as he stood in line at a downtown soup kitchen. When he came up short, an acquaintance sprang for the government-subsidized meal.

One of about 160,000 Argentines who flooded into Brazil for the World Cup, Pontoni hardly fits the image of deep-pocketed foreigners who dropped around $3 billion in Brazil during the monthlong tournament.

The 23-year-old actor is broke, and he has no immediate plans to return home almost two weeks after Germany beat Argentina in the July 13 final.

"Brazil is amazing, and I want to stay," said Pontoni, who had been camping out in Rio's Sambadrome Carnival parade grounds, lunching at soup kitchens and searching for an odd job to cover bus fare to see northern Brazil. "It could be weeks or months or longer. I'm going to see where life and the road take me."

Local media reports say tens of thousands of Argentine fans remain in the country. They appear to be overwhelmingly young and male: Most are in their 20s, and less than a third of them are women.

Brazil's Federal Police did not respond to email and telephone requests seeking confirmation of how many Argentines are still here. But the prospect of a large number of foreigners selling handicrafts, juggling at intersections for handouts or relying on government social services for poor Brazilians has officials worried.

Although Brazil's once-gangbuster economy has slowed in recent years, the situation is far better than that in crisis-wracked Argentina, which has a shortage of dollars and one of the world's highest inflation rates.Antonio Pedro Figueira de Mello, who heads Rio's tourism promotion agency, has acknowledged that controls along Brazil's 1,260-kilometer (780-mile) land border with

Wenger bemoans preseason tour schedule

NEW yorK, July 25 (rEutErs): Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has echoed the sentiments of new Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal in criticising the demands of their pre-season tour.

Wenger said it was "impossible" to prepare his squad properly for the upcoming Premier League campaign, which begins on August 16, given the demands of their pre-season schedule and players returning later than normal after World Cup duty.

Arsenal are in the United States for a friendly against Major league Soccer (MLS) franchise New York Red Bulls, before heading to Austria for a training camp and then returning to London for the Emirates Cup. "These training camps in the modern game are decided for commercial reasons and because of the extent of popularity of the club," the Frenchman told a news conference on Thursday.

"We’ve never been to the States before and I was very happy to come to New York – a city I love.

"But for purely football reasons, the best thing to do is stay and not travel too much because of the time you waste and the jet-lag you suffer is not ideal."

Arsenal are without a host of internationals following the World Cup and Wenger highlighted the difficulty in players beginning the intense domestic campaign so soon after returning from the tournament.

"This season is a postWorld Cup year and very difficult because the time is very short between the final, which was on July 13, and the start of the new season on August 16.

"And compulsory, from FIFA, you are obliged to give four weeks' holiday to the players, so I don’t know how all that works together.

It looks, to me, impossible."

Wenger's comments came days after Van Gaal said Manchester United's pre-season tour was wrongly being dictated by the club's commercial interests. United beat Los Angeles Galaxy 7-0 on Wednesday, and now face games in Denver, Washington and Detroit.

Van Gaal's team potentially face a fifth game on Aug. 4, less than two weeks before they kick off their Premier League season at home to Swansea City on August 16. "More or less, yes," Van Gaal told British media in the United States, when asked whether the demands were hindering their preparations.

its southern neighbor may have been too lax during the tournament.

"We were taken by surprise" by the influx of Argentines, the Rio newspaper O Globo quoted Mello as saying. "In any place in the world, people have to state where they're going, how much time they're staying, what resources they have and whether they have health insurance.

That was not done." Argentines don't need a visa, or even a passport, to visit Brazil. A government ID card will do.

Mello spoke at the Sambadrome, which was turned into a makeshift campsite to help accommodate the waves of Argentines who arrived by car, bus and motorhome during the World Cup. The site was closed last week, and the last campers were evicted. Media reports said Argentine consular officials were there to help organize return transportation for people whose money ran out or whose documents were lost or stolen, but many reportedly weren't interested in such help.

Unified Club, the Champion of the Tournament along with the Organizing Committee

Dimapur, July 25 (mExN): Unified Club, Borlengri, walked away as champions in the 2nd Open Volleyball Tournament of Manipuri Bosti Youth Club beating Luhevi team from Aghunaqa in the final. Sumi Vision team, Purana Bazar secured the third position.

The 2nd Open Volleyball Tournament held on July 23 and 24 saw eight teams participating and exhibiting their talent. Despite the summer heat, there was no respite from the players in showcasing the spirit of true sports-

manship with discipline overcoming all odd weathers. Avina Khulu was the Convener of the Tournament. Ayimeren Longchar and Toshisangba were the referees.

Manipuri Bosti (Village), Borlengri is a small well knitted community of people from various ethnic groups and tribes building a vibrant society together with its neighboring villages and living in peaceful harmonious co-existence. Since a decade and more, Manipuri Bosti Youth Club (MBYC) has been organizing an-

nual sports-events under different disciplines and styles. The first Open Volleyball Tournament of MBYC was held in 2012.

Last year, Softball Cricket Tournament was organized by the Youth Club.

The most exciting part of the tournament was the spirit of brotherhood in sports who have come to participate from far and near like that of the Sporting Club from Mangkolemba, Young Brothers, Manipuri Bosti and Sughuna teams and others from in and around Dimapur and Borlengri areas said K. A.

Khrasi, President MBYC. Another remarkable achievement seen during the tournament was introducing of waste bins by the Youth Club at some strategic locations from littering the sports complex. It may be worth mentioning here that Pro-Rural (NGO), a youth led Organization working in the field of better waste management also donated some waste bins during the tournament to sensitize the public specially the young generations in promoting environmental concerns through sports and games.

Lampard joins New York City FC of MLS Chelsea re-sign

NEW yorK, July 25 (ap): The newest team in Major League Soccer is doing its part to fill Yankee Stadium with stars.

New York City FC introduced Frank Lampard in Brooklyn on Thursday after signing the 36-year-old former Chelsea midfielder to a two-year contract. "Why not New York? Talk about ticking all the boxes. I want to carry on challenging myself." Lampard said at a news conference . "That's a great challenge, isn't it?

City of hopes and dreams.

That's where you want to go to and play isn't it?"

The club owned by Manchester City of the Premier League and the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball previously signed David Villa of Atletico Madrid. Both City and Atletico won league championships last year, meaning the expansion soccer team set to begin playing home games at the ballpark in 2015 is also bringing more champions to the Bronx than Yankee Stadium's full-time tenants have lately.

The news conference was held at Brooklyn Bridge Park, where several soccer fields share space on a pier in the East River across from Lower Manhattan. A couple dozen

Frank Lampard, of England, poses with the Manhattan skyline behind him after his introduction as a member of the MLS expansion club New York City FC, on July 24 in New York. (AP Photo)

fans, many in blue Chelsea jerseys, gathered around to listen, at times cheering and getting laughs from the dais, where Lampard was flanked by club sport-

ing director Claudio Reyna , chief business officer Tim Pernetti, and coach Jason Kreis. Lampard, who has scored 211 goals for England and Chelsea, became

the latest international star to move to MLS. Most famous was David Beckham, who joined the Los Angeles Galaxy in 2007 from Real Madrid.

"I think this is an incredibly exciting time for the league," Kreis said.

Lampard is "a rare talent, one that scores a lot of goals from midfield, yet is also a disciplined defender and someone who reads the game brilliantly."

Lampard was asked about a widely reported encounter with American travelers in 2001, shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, when he and teammates were fined following reports they were behaving drunkenly and boorishly in front of the distraught Americans.

"I was naive and a young boy at the time and I have some regrets," Lampard said. "I categorically didn't insult anyone, set out to insult anyone, behave badly in front of Americans or in fact anyone. I've tried in the last 13 years at Chelsea to build up — well, to just be a good man really and not just be a good footballer, but a good man off the pitch. ... Unfortunately it was very much misreported at the time in England and it's actually a chance for me to finally say that."

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loNDoN, July 25 (rEutErs): Chelsea have resigned Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba on a oneyear contract, the Premier League club said on Friday.

Drogba, 36, spent eight seasons at Stamford Bridge before leaving in 2012 shortly after scoring the winning penalty in the Champions League final against Bayern Munich.

"It was an easy decision - I couldn't turn down the opportunity to work with Jose (Mourinho) again," Drogba told the club website.

"Everyone knows the special relationship I have with this club and it has always felt like home to me."

Drogba joined the Blues from Olympique Marseille for 24 million pounds ($40.8 million) in 2004 and scored 157 goals in 342 appearances for the London club. He is Chelsea's record

scorer in European competition with 34 goals and won three Premier League titles, four FA Cups, two League Cups as well as the Champions League in his first spell.After leaving Stamford Bridge two years ago, he moved to China to play for Shanghai Shenhua before joining Turkish side Galatasaray, who played Chelsea in the Champions League last-16 last season.

Chelsea coach Mourinho said there was no emotion or sentiment involved in the decision to bring him back. "He’s coming because he’s one of the best strikers in Europe," Mourinho said. "I know his personality very well and I know if he comes back he’s not protected by history or what he’s done for this club previously. He is coming with the mentality to make more history."

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All human beings deserve equal treatment no matter their gender identity or sexuality. To be perceived as what you say you are is a basic human right. Pejic later posted a selfie on Facebook.

I want to take this opportunity to thank all of you for the love and support throughout the years. You’ve all helped me through this journey and I have learned a lot and really come into my own and the response to today’s announcement truly overwhelmed me and reminds me of why I chose to do this publicly.

I think we all evolve as we get older and that’s normal but I like to think that my recent transition hasn’t made me into a different individual. Same person, no difference at all just a different sex I hope you can all understand that, Pejic posted on the social networking website.

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ourteney Cox is to marry her rocker boyfriend Johnny McDaid in his native Northern Ireland, according to a new report. Cox and the Snow Patrol musician, who announced their engagement last month (Jun14) after a year of dating, flew into his hometown of Derry, Northern Ireland on Wednesday (23Jul14). Local reports suggest the couple is in town to celebrate the engagement with McDaid’s family and friends, and look at potential wedding venues. A source tells the Belfast Telegraph the stars have chosen to hold the wedding in Northern Ireland.

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all his stuff. ‘’But he’s never commented once on the script, he hasn’t interfered at all.’’ Elton entered rehab in the 1990s, at which point he was heavily dependent on drink and drugs, and he’s confessed in the past that it was only when he was at his lowest ebb that he decided to seek help.

Reflecting on his troubles, Elton explained previously ‘’I would have an epileptic seizure and turn blue and people would find me on the floor and put me to bed and then 40 minutes later I’d be snorting another line.’’

Hardy, 36 is currently shooting in London for the Kray twins biopic ‘Legend’ and has a number of films lined up for release including ‘The Drop’, ‘Child 44’ and ‘Mad Max Fury Road’.

Hilary Duff returns to music with new single ilary Duff is returning to the music scene with a new album that`s coming out later this year. It would be Duff`s first album in seven years.

The actress-singer confirmed that she is currently working on the new single `Chasing the Sun` for her record label RCA Records, suggest reports. The song is slated to release on iTunes on July 29. `Chasing the Sun` is a light and fun summer song that I hope helps people to feel a little more carefree, Duff said of her new single on Instagram. `Chasing the Sun` is just a peek into my new album. I`ve worked very hard and the album is a great representation of the experiences I`ve had in my life and where I want to go from here!, she said.

I took a break from music for quite awhile, but it gave me the power to choose my next steps carefully and I`m really proud of the album I`ve made, she said about her follow-up to 2007`s `Dignity`.

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The ‘Boyfriend’ hitmaker who recently posted shots of himself posing in the brand’s iconic briefs on his Instagram account - has reportedly teamed up with the famed underwear label for a campaign which is set to be released later this year.

A source told the Mail Online ‘’Justin has shot for Calvin Klein, we hope the results will be released later this year.’’ Another insider has since confirmed to E! News that Justin had been involved in a shoot for the

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News of the teamup follows a cryptic photo the ‘Never Say Never’ singer posted on his Instagram account back in March, in which he is seen posing with his shirt unbuttoned and wearing a pair of black Calvin Klein briefs.

Justin captioned the picture ‘’What If I do a Calvin Klein campaign Comment below yes or no. (sic)’’ Calvin Klein have so far declined to comment on the revelations but it is thought the 20-year-old will soon be joining model Lara Stone as the face of the brand.

Kesha Wants ‘Colour’ in Her Life esha has “let colour back into” her life again. The 27-year-old singer who is currently sporting blue hair wants to dye her luscious locks different colours to represent her new positive outlook. Speaking on ‘Good Morning America’ yesterday (24.07.14), she said: “I’m having my hair be a rainbow, right now. I’m going through all the colours of the rainbow because I feel like I’m a rainbow. “This is my new thing, I’m a rainbow. Before I used to dress a lot in black and now I’ve let colour into my life. It’s very metaphorical.” The ‘Timber’ hitmaker spent two months in rehab being treated for an eating disorder in Jan-

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new film concerning Elton John’s personal struggle with addiction is in the works. Sir Elton John has revealed the secrets of his rehab diaries for his upcoming biopic starring Tom Hardy. The ‘Dark Knight Rises’ star is to portray the 67-year-old musician in a new film, which will focus on his struggle with addiction, following his decision to reveal the secrets of the diaries he wrote while in rehab.

‘Billy Elliot’ writer Lee Hall - who has written the script for the project - claims Elton personally handed him his private journals. Hall told The Sun newspaper ‘’One day he took me to his house and opened a safe and he had all his private diaries that nobody had seen from when he was in rehab and left me there to read

Mr. Big Drummer Pat Torpey Diagnosed With Parkinson’s Disease R. BIG drummer PAT TORPEY has been forced to sit out the group’s upcoming world tour as he battles Parkinson’s disease. The rocker tells Blabbermouth.net he has been fighting symptoms for the past two years, but his diagnosis was only confirmed recently. He says, “I intend to fight the disease with same intensity and tenacity that I drum and live my life by and will continue recording and performing, as always, to the best of my ability”. Torpey is still expected to join his bandmates during acoustic sets, but a replacement drummer will take his place on the band’s upcoming tour. The drummer reunited with his Mr Big co-founders Eric Martin, Paul Gilbert and Billy Sheehan in 2009. The group formed in 1988 and enjoyed a string of chart hits, including To Be With You and Just Take My Heart.

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The amount of love and support I’ve received is insane. It was really touching.”

The stunning star insists her biggest accomplishment so far was learning to deal with the negative comments, which had once knocked her body confidence. Asked what the most difficult part of her journey was, she said: “Just really learning to block out negativity and not letting hateful messages get to me, because I’ve received some pretty hateful things.”

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Former X-Factor judge Tulisa is found GUILTY of assaulting celebrity blogger at V-Festival ormer X-Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos has said she is ‘outraged’ at being found guilty of assaulting a blogger at V-Festival. The N-Dubz star appeared to mutter ‘this is bulls***’ after she was convicted for hitting Savvas Morgan during an altercation at the event in Essex last year. She is now planning to appeal the guilty verdict which came at the end of what she has described as a ‘rollercoaster week’.

In a defiant statement outside Stratford Magistrates’ Court in east London, she said: ‘This has been a rollercoaster week for me. I never wanted any of this. ‘I did not assault Vas J Morgan and I am outraged at this decision. I will be appealing it. ‘There are a number of high-profile witnesses who were there and know what happened. I urge them to come forward and tell the truth at the appeal. ‘I am determined to clear my name as I have already done once this week. I repeat - I did not assault Vas J Morgan. I am innocent.’

Sarah Asbrey, senior district crown prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service in the east of England, said: ‘It was clear from the evidence that Miss Contostavlos held a grudge against Mr Morgan for previous comments he had made about her on his blog including a link

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Jeremy Dein QC, barrister for Contostavlos, said in mitigation that his client was provoked by the actions of her victim in relation to the sex tape. He told the court: Mr Morgan played a significant part in humiliating and debasing Miss Contostavlos’s reputation, clearly for financial gain.’ District Judge Angus Hamilton said Contostavlos struck Mr Morgan in the face during an argument, causing minor bruising and swelling.’

He said the musician acted in a ‘confrontational’ manner when she turned towards her victim. ‘Her decision to seek to deal with Mr Morgan herself strikes me as aggressive and confrontational,’ he said. He went on to say that he had a ‘number of points of concern’ about her evidence during the trial. He found that she ‘changed her account’ of what she did with her hands during the confrontation.

She initially claimed she raised them in a defensive gesture but later said they remained by her sides, he said.

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assault, Contostavlos was ordered to pay a total of £3,020.

This included £200 fine, £2,700 contribution towards the cost of the prosecution, £100 compensation to Mr Morgan and a £20 victim surcharge. Wearing a blue suit, white shirt and stillettos, she shook her head in disbelief as the verdict was read out and swore as she walked away from the dock. Her assistant, Gareth Varey, was cleared of using threatening behaviour during the incident last August.

Earlier this week, a drugs trial against Contostavlos collapsed at Southwark Crown Court after the judge said there were ‘strong grounds’ to believe that undercover reporter Mazher Mahmood - known as the Fake Sheikh - had lied in the witness box. Earlier in the trial, the singer told the court that Mr Morgan conducted a ‘vendetta’ against her since an incident in which she asked security to remove him from a VIP area at the Whisky Mist nightclub in London’s Mayfair.

She also claimed she believed Mr Morgan was involved in the release of a sex tape of her online. But added that she had no grudge against him, saying: ‘He was one of many.’ Since the incident, Mr Morgan has become a regular cast member on ITV’s TOWIE.

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GlasGow, July 25 (IaNs): India's only individual Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra rounded off his Commonwealth Games journey with his maiden singles gold medal while 16-year-old Malaika Goel clinched her first international medal, a silver, at the Barry Buddon Shooting Centre here Friday. However, there was heartbreak for India's rifleshooter Ravi Kumar, who missed out on a bronze medal in a shoot-off in the final of the men's 10m air rifle event. Former World No.1 Heena Sidhu also finished a disappointing seventh in the women's 10m air pistol event.

In shooting, Bindra and Ravi were engaged in an interesting duel during the final round of the men's 10m air rifle event. Ravi was in lead after 12 shots but Bindra took over him in the 13th shot and then raced away to seal the gold medal in style.

For Bindra, who won India's only individual Olympic gold medal in Beijing, it was his first individual gold medal in his fifth and last Commonwealth

Games here. On the eve of the event, Bindra, 31, had announced that this would be his last Commonwealth Games.

The gold medal was the second medal for India from the shooting ranges after 16-year-old Malaika Goel won the sliver in the women's 10m air pistol event. World No.15 Malaika bagged the silver with a total of 197.1 points while the gold was clinched by unfancied Singaporean shooter Shun Xie Teo with a score of 198.6. The bronze went to Dorothy Ludwig of Canada with 177.2 points.

Both Heena, World No.4, and Malaika were the highest ranked shooters in the competition and expectations were high from them. Heena had won the silver in the 2010 edition in Delhi. Malaika displayed raw talent and held her nerves to shoot her maiden Commonwealth Games medal. She finished fourth in the qualifying round while Heena faltered badly in the final round with a score of 95.8 and was eliminated after the fourth shot, despite topping the qualification round.

‘Neymar's brain on auto-pilot’

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ToKyo, July 25 (aFP): Brazilian superstar Neymar's brain activity while dancing past opponents is less than 10 percent the level of amateur players, suggesting he plays as if on autopilot, according to Japanese neurologists. Results of brain scans conducted on Neymar in February this year indicated minimal cerebral function when he rotated his ankle and point to the Barcelona striker's wizardry being uncannily natural.

"From MRI images we discovered Neymar's brain activity to be less than 10 percent of an amateur player," researcher Eiichi Naito said on Friday. "It is possible genetics is a factor, aided by the type of training he does."The findings were published in the Swiss journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience following a series of motor skills tests carried out on the 22-year-old Neymar and several other athletes in Barcelona in February this year.

Three Spanish seconddivision footballers and two top-level swimmers were also subjected to the same tests, added Naito of Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology.

Naito concluded in his paper that the test results "provide valuable evidence that the football brain of Neymar recruits very limited neural resources in the motor-cortical foot regions during foot movements".

Asked whether Neymar's Barcelona teammate Lionel Messi or Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo might display similar test results, Naito said: "It is fair to assume they would show similar levels given their footwork and technique."

Naito told Japan's Mainichi Shimbun newspaper: "Reduced brain activity means less burden which allows (the player) to perform many complex movements at once. We believe this gives him the ability to execute his various shimmies."

Meanwhile, Bindra, who was the youngest participant at the 1998 Commonwealth Games, shot 205.3 in the final to clinch his fourth Commonwealth Gold medal. His previous three gold medals were in pairs. He had won singles silver medals in 2002 and 2010 and bronze in 2006.

The Olympic champion shot 205.3 in a keenly contested final round that saw three shoot-off. Bindra also had a good qualifying round where he finished third with 622.2 points.

The silver went to Bangladesh's Abdullah Baki while England's Daniel Rivers got the bronze. Both Baki and Rivers were tied for the second position after the eighth shot but Baki won the shoot-off. Baki finished with a score of 202.1 and was fifth in the qualifying rounds with a score of 620. Rivers topped the qualifying rounds with a score of shot 623.6, which was a Games Record and got 182.4 in the final. Rivers and India's Ravi Kumar were also tied for the third place but the Englishman clinched the shoot-off. Ravi shot 162.4 in the final.

hauTacam, July 25 (aGeNcIes): A female fan at the Tour de France has received heavy criticism online after photographs of her knocking into Vincenzo Nibali surfaced on twitter.

The latest incident took place Thursday on stage 18, the last mountain stage of the Tour, which concludes on Sunday in Paris. The female fan was seen jumping out into the road mid race, with her back turned to the cyclists and outstretching her arm in an attempt to take a 'selfie'. Unbeknownst to the fan, the current Tour de France leader Nibali was close behind and bumped into her, almost knocking him off balance. Nibali managed to go on and win the stage without incident: Tour de France 'seflies' were a huge trend this year, but weren't so popular among the tournament's participants. Cyclists spoke openly in the media about how dangerous, disruptive and distracting it was to the racers when fans jumped before them to try snap a quick picture.

In hockey, the men's team also started their campaign with a facile 3-1 win over lowly Wales in a Pool A tie at the Glasgow National Hockey Centre. In what was a lazy and lacklustre beginning, India at half-time were held to a 1-1 scoreline by Wales, who are ranked 22 places below in the FIH Rankings. But a much better second half performance that saw two goals being scored put India through. Indian shuttlers also continued their fine show as they Kenya in their final Pool B match of the Mixed Team event to top the group.

First up, scratch pair of Jwala Gutta and Kidambi Srikanth needed only 18 minutes to beat Mercy Joseph and Patrick Mbogo 21-8, 21-8 in 18 minutes in mixed doubles. This was followed by singles victories by Parupalli Kashyap (men's) and P.C. Thulasi (women's) to give India an unassailable 3-0 lead in the match. While Kashyap overcame Victor Munga 21-7, 21-8 in 20 minutes, Thulasi took only 15 minutes to destroy Lavina Martins 21-4, 21-2.

(LEFT) Abhinav Bindra celebrates victory in the final of the Men's 10m Air Rifle final during the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games at the Barry Buddon Shooting Centre in Carnoustie on Friday. (RIGHT) India's Malaika Goel with her Silver Medal following the 10m Air Pistol Women's final during the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games at the Barry Buddon Shooting Centre in Carnoustie, Friday, July 25. (AP Photos)

Manipur announces rewards for CWG medalists ImPhal, July 25 (NNN): Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh announced today the Government would give incentive cash rewards to the four Manipuri women sports persons participating in Glasgow Commonwealth Games, 2014. Opposition legislator Dr I Ibohalbi from the opposition bench said in the state assembly that Ma-

nipur Government should honour all the four women sportspersons from the state participating India in the Commonwealth Games.

Weightlifter Sanjita Khumukcham won gold medal in women’s 48 kg weightlifting and Saikhom Mirabai bagged the silver of the Commonwealth Games. Sushila Likmabam settled for one silver

medal in the judo competition of the internatiional event on Thursday while Kalpana Thoudam took home the bronze medal in women’s 52kg category.

Ibobi announced in the House that the Government would give Rs 15 lakh to Sanjita, Rs 10 lakh each to Mirabai and Sushila and Rs 8 lakh to Kalpana as incentive awards.

Arsenal legend Ljunberg joins ISL

Leopold Konig of the Czech Republic holds his right arm as Spain's Benat Intxausti, rear, gets assistance getting up after a bunch of riders crashed in the last three kilometers of the nineteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 208.5 kilometers (129.6 miles) with start in Maubourguet and finish in Bergerac, France, Friday, July 25. (AP Photo)

New DelhI, July 25 (PTI): The much-anticipated Indian Super League has got a further shot in the arm, this time from a Gunner, as Arsenal legend Freddie Ljungberg signed a deal with the franchisebased event with an aim to give Indian football a taste of English Premier League.

"Even though I am retired, when this opportunity came up I was really excited to be involved. Indian football is such a growing market and this is a great opportunity for me to take my knowledge of the English Premier League over to India to help launch the league," Ljungberg, who will be one of the marquee players in the league, said.

The former Swedish international, who has 75 caps for his country, is best known for his nine-year career at Arsenal where he scored 72 goals, won two Premier League titles and three FA Cups.

In 2003, Ljungberg became the third player in the history of the competition to ever score in two successive FA Cup finals. He was one of 'The Invincibles' - squad that remained unbeaten

for 49 games in 2002, when Ljungberg was also named Barclaycard Player of the Season. Arsenal fans created the song 'We love you Freddie' to the tune of 'Can't take my eyes off of you' by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.

During his time at Arsenal, Ljungberg also became known off the pitch for his iconic images for the Calvin Klein underwear campaign.

After leaving Arsenal in 2007, Ljungberg moved to West Ham United and later to Seattle Sounders and Chicago Fire in the USA. He retired from international football in 2012. Jeff Slack, Senior Vice President, Global Football - IMG said, "We are all elated and are

confident that Freddie's inclusion will be a landmark achievement for the team he will be eventually picked up by. We are sure that his unmatchable track record and top flight experience will take the League to a completely different level."

Recently, ISL had announced a strategic partnership with the English Premier League (EPL) to bring its best practices to India under the exchange program. ISL will be played among eight clubs -- Atletico de Kolkata, Kerala Blasters FC, Delhi Dynamos FC, NorthEast United FC, Team Pune, Team Mumbai, Team Goa and Team Bengaluru.

Jadeja fined for Anderson fracas

loNDoN, July 25 (ReuTeRs): India's Ravindra Jadeja has been fined half his match fee for his involvement in an altercation with England quick bowler James Anderson during the drawn first test at Trent Bridge.

The clash, which occurred as the players left the field at lunch on the second day, saw Jadeja charged with a level two misconduct charge for allegedly approaching Anderson in a threatening manner. Anderson was charged with a level three offense for having "abused and pushed" his opponent.

Match referee David Boon found Jadeja not guilty of the offence for which he had been charged, but felt his conduct was contrary to the spirit of the game.

"While I was in no doubt that confrontation did occur, and that such conduct was not in the spirit of the game and should not have taken place, I was not comfortably satisfied that this was a level 2 offence," Boon, the former Australia batsman, said in a statement on Friday.

"Therefore, in exercising my discretion under Article 7.6.5 of the Code and having heard all the evidence, I was comfortably satisfied that Mr Jadeja had committed a level 1 offence under Article 2.1.8 of the Code." Anderson's hearing will be held on Aug. 1, the day after the third test at Southampton is scheduled to finish, where he faces a possible four-test ban if he found guilty.

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India's Ravindra Jadeja, left, shakes hands with England's James Anderson after running him out to win the test match on the fifth day of the second cricket test match between England and India at Lord's cricket ground in London, Monday, July 21, 2014. (AP Photo)

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BCCI-ICC on collision course over ruling souThamPToN, July 25 (PTI): The BCCI and its parent body ICC seemed headed for a showdown after Indian all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja was on Friday fined 50% of his match fee for the altercation with England pacer James Anderson, a sentence which a livid Indian Board intends to challenge.

Jadeja was docked 50% of his match fee by match referee David Boon for the on-field incident with Anderson but the player was not found guilty for the original level 2 offence charged by the England team management.

Soon after the ICC announcement, a miffed BCCI made it clear that it was not satisfied with the verdict and said it reserved its right to appeal against the sentence. The BCCI said it was fully behind Jadeja after Boon found the player guilty of 'conduct contrary to the spirit of the game'.

"The BCCI wishes to make it clear that it is not satisfied with the verdict.

The BCCI reserves its right to appeal against the sentence. The BCCI believes that Mr Ravindra Jadeja was not at fault, and supports him fully," it added.

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